Legislators introduce measure that would delay proposed 2023 Medicare physician fee cuts
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U.S. Reps. Ami Bera, MD, D-Cali., and Larry Bucshon, MD, R-Ind., have introduced legislation that would stop planned cuts in Medicare payments to physicians in 2023.
The Supporting Medicare Providers Act would stop cuts of 4.42% in Medicare payments starting on Jan. 1, 2023. The cuts were included in the proposed 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule payment rule, which CMS released in the summer.
“It’s time Congress reforms Medicare provider payments to ensure that we have a stable Medicare payment system so that we can move toward value, not volume,” Bera said in a press release. “As an internal medicine doctor by training, I know that cutting payments for physicians further strains our health care system and the ability for health care professionals to provide the best care for their patients,” he added.
“We must work to stabilize physician payment so that patients have access to the care they need,” Bucshon said in the release.
In 2023, physicians face more than 8.42% in Medicare payment cuts, the legislators said.
“An imminent 4.42% physician payment cut as we emerge from a global pandemic will have a devastating impact on access and care for Medicare beneficiaries,” Jack Resneck Jr., president of the AMA, said in the release. “Moving forward with this cut now is wrongheaded and inconceivable. Yet this is what is scheduled to take place. ... Our patients are counting on Congress to agree to a solution, and the clock is ticking,” Resneck said.
Reference:
Reps. Bera and Bucshon introduce bipartisan legislation to protect physicians from pay cuts under Medicare. https://bera.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/reps-bera-and-bucshon-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-protect. Published Sept. 14, 2022. Accessed Sept. 16, 2022.
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