Becker's Healthcare March 10, 2025
The House has introduced a stopgap funding bill to keep the government running through Sept. 30, the end of fiscal 2025, with a vote expected as early as March 11.
Notably, the legislation excludes provisions to address the 2.83% cut to Medicare physician reimbursement. A 2.5% temporary Medicare physician fee increase took effect Jan. 1 but is absent from the House’s latest spending package
The proposed spending package “locks in a devastating fifth consecutive year of Medicare cuts, threatening access to care for 66 million Medicare patients,” Bruce Scott, MD, president of the American Medical Association, said in a statement. “Lawmakers are once again ignoring the dire consequences of these cuts and their impact both on patients and the private...
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