Top radiology groups — along with 80 other medical organizations and associations from all 50 states — have urged Congress to reverse a 2.83% cut to the 2025 conversion factor for physician payments and provide a 2% increase.
In a February 10 letter, the groups asked leaders in the U.S. House and Senate to pass the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act, proposed bipartisan legislation recently reintroduced by Rep. Greg Murphy, MD (R-NC).
Absent any reversal, physicians will experience a 2.83% fee schedule reduction under the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), effective January 1.
“America’s physicians are united in urging Congress to use the forthcoming March appropriations bill as an opportunity to provide physicians with desperately needed fiscal relief that is imperative to ensuring that seniors retain access to health care services under Medicare,” the groups wrote.
U.S. physicians and the millions of patients they treat can “no longer accept any excuses” from Congress for not including provisions that reverse the latest round of cuts, the letter stated.
Groups signing the letter included the American College of Radiology (ACR), the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASRO), the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).