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More than 120 medical associations to Congress: stop the cuts

The CAP and the AMA were two of 124 medical associations to share, in a letter to congressional leaders, their alarm about the “mounting financial instability of the Medicare physician payment system.”

The instability, they wrote in their Sept. 22 letter, stems from “statutory payment cuts, perennial lack of inflationary updates, significant administrative barriers, and the cumulative impact of the pandemic.” The payment system “remains on an unsustainable path threatening beneficiaries’ access to physicians.”

The associations outlined how the proposed 2023 Medicare physician fee schedule would cut the Medicare conversion factor by about 4.5 percent, which doesn’t account for inflation.

They urged Congress to do the following:

• Provide relief from the scheduled -4.42 percent budget neutrality cut in Medicare physician fee schedule payments.
• End the statutory annual pay freeze and provide a Medicare economic index update for the coming year.
• Extend the five percent Advanced Alternative Payment Model participation incentive and halt the “impossible-to-meet” revenue threshold increase for five years to encourage more physicians to transition from fee-for-service to alternative payment models.
• Waive the four percent pay-as-you-go, or PAYGO, sequester triggered by passage of the American Rescue Plan Act.