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Bookmark or Share- Recent Medicare Cuts News - American Medical AssociationMedicare Cuts highlights cuts in payment rates for the year. Learn more about the issues and laws at the AMA. Medicare Pay Cuts highlights cuts in payment rates for the year, how to avoid penalties, the AMA's fight against the Independent Payment Advisory Board provision, and the latest on other issues and laws.
- Congressional action on Medicare payments must occur this yearThe AMA is not alone in sounding the alarm. Both the Medicare Physician Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and the Medicare trustees have warned that repeated Medicare payment cuts jeopardize access to care. All patients are put at risk when a flawed and outdated payment system forces physicians to cut hours or close their doors.
- Heartbreaking Medicare cuts start to hit home in CongressAfter four years of Medicare payment cuts and a fifth scheduled for 2025 unless Congress acts, there has been a major shift in how Capitol Hill sees the issue and its impact, said Todd Askew, the AMA’s senior vice president of advocacy.
- Bipartisan bill would stabilize Medicare physician pay for 2025Editor’s note: CMS has finalized the 2025 Medicare physician pay schedule that has physicians in line for a 2.8% cut in pay, despite a 3.5% rise in the MEI. “To put it bluntly, Medicare plans to pay us less while costs go up,” Dr. Scott said in an AMA statement. “You don’t have to be an economist to know that is an unsustainable trend ...
- CMS should be transparent on impact of Medicare pay cutsLayered onto these payment cuts, for physicians who participate in the MIPS program, penalties can cut Medicare payment by as much as 9%, the AMA tells CMS. And the cuts disproportionately impact small, rural and independent practices and they exacerbate health inequities. Certain specialists are also more severely impacted than others.
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