More than 200 Lawmakers Urge Congress to Stop Impending Medicare Payment Cuts

A bipartisan group of more than 200 lawmakers urged Congress in a formal communication to stop impending Medicare payment cuts. In the letter, the 233 lawmakers urge House leadership to “expeditiously pass legislative fixes that not only stop another damaging round of cuts to Medicare payments, but also provide greater certainty and stability for clinicians serving Medicare beneficiaries.”
 
ASA has long advocated for an update to the outdated Medicare physician payment system.  Recently, ASA joined with leading national surgical organizations in releasing a formal document urging fundamental reforms to the Medicare physician payment system, including adding a mandatory annual inflation adjustment to Medicare physician fees and restructuring the punitive budget neutrality mechanism, among other reforms.
 
ASA also thanks all who joined in contacting their members of Congress in support of the recent Congressional letter.
 
Read a copy of the letter (PDF).