AMA April 8, 2024
By Kevin B. O'Reilly

For the last two years, the U.S. Congress has failed to stop in their entirety repeated across-the-board pay cuts that further threaten Medicare access to high-quality physician care, especially for patients in rural, underserved or economically marginalized areas.

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The need for Medicare physician payment reform has never been greater. The AMA shows how the current system is unsustainable—and how you can urge Congress to support solutions.

In 2023, it was a 2% pay cut that took effect. And this year, physicians are seeing another 1.68% pay cut. The cuts come after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid physician and health worker shortages and rising inflation, and...

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