MSSNY Continues Push to Stop Medicare Cuts to Physicians and Urges New York Congressional Delegation to Oppose Medicaid Cuts
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MSSNY is continuing its advocacy to New York’s Congressional Delegation to restore steep cuts to Medicare payments as well as to prevent proposed cuts to New York’s Medicaid program. Physicians are urged to continue to contact their members of Congress MSSNY’s Grassroots Action Center (GAC). to urge that they stop the 2.8% cut that went into effect on January 1, and to provide increases to provide stability to the program in the future.
Advocacy to Reverse Medicare Cuts. The bi-partisan Medicare Patient Access and Patient Stabilization Act of 2025 (H.R.879) would reverse the latest round of Medicare payment cuts and provide a positive update until the end of the year to account for cuts that have been implemented since January. Together with the AMA and the federation of medicine, MSSNY is urging that these provisions be included in the healthcare package in the Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep the government funded, which expires in March.
Physicians face a 2.8% cut in Medicare payments in 2025 — the fifth consecutive year of cuts—while the cost of running a practice continues to rise. The Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that the Medicare Economic Index (MEI), which reflects practice cost inflation, will increase by 3.5% in 2025, yet physician payments continue to decline. Physicians’ Medicare reimbursement has now been reduced by 33% since 2001 when adjusted for inflation in practice costs.
Please urge your members of Congress to reverse these cuts! Please urge them to support the inclusion of the provisions of HR 879 into the March continuing resolution MSSNY’s Grassroots Action Center (GAC).
Advocacy to Preserve Medicaid for Millions of New Yorkers. At the same time, MSSNY is working together with several patient and health care provider groups NY-Delegation-Letter-Protect-Medicaid-January-2025.pdf to urge our Congressional delegation to oppose deep proposed cuts to the Medicaid program and other essential publicly financed health insurance programs. While this week’s Budget resolution did not implement cuts specifically, it gives a massive nearly $900 billion cutting target to the House Energy & Commerce Committee, of which Medicaid is a major item under their jurisdiction.
These cuts under serious discussion would have a significant domino effect, resulting in steep cuts in New York State for programs that currently help millions of patients. MSSNY also joined in our letter to Congressional leaders from dozens of state medical associations across the country to prevent these steep Medicaid cuts. In addition, several county medical societies have joined in locally focused joint stakeholder letters to their local Congressional representatives.
Physicians can join in this effort by sending a letter to their US Representatives here: https://p2a.co/yAa4JM9 urging Congress to reject these steep Medicaid cuts.
