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House urges block of reimbursement cut

Congressional leaders should take up legislation to block a planned 2.8% cut to physician reimbursement in the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), according to a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
In a letter to House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the legislators said “Congress must pass a bill providing physicians and other clinicians with a payment update that takes into account the cost of actually delivering care to patients.”
The cut marks the fifth consecutive year that the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a fee schedule that lowers payments to doctors and other clinicians, the letter said.