On October 29, the ACEP-supported bipartisan “Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act” (H.R. 10073) was introduced in the House of Representatives by congressional physician champions and physician allies. Now, it needs emergency physician support to help enact it into law.
This bill fully addresses the impending 2.8% Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) cuts scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2025, and goes further to provide a temporary update to the PFS via a one-year inflationary update of half the 2025 Medicare Economic Index (MEI), a proposal similar to recommendations that the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recently shared with Congress.
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ACEP continues to prioritize long-term, sustainable physician payment reform as a key pillar of our federal advocacy efforts.
This bill is a vital stopgap to fully prevent the imminent cuts facing emergency physicians at year-end, establish an important precedent of reflecting inflationary pressures in the Medicare physician payment system, and to provide the physician community and Congress additional time to collaborate on long-term physician payment reform.
ACEP and 130 organizations representing physicians, health care providers, hospitals, and other organizations support passing this bill into law. Read the press release from the bill sponsors here.
