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- CAP Advocacy Spurs Senate Support for Medicare Pay Increase
A bipartisan group of 40 senators signed a November 21 letter to Senate leadership urging them to address the 2.8% Medicare payment cut set to go into effect January 1, 2025. More than 650 CAP members asked their senators to sign the letter in 1,300 messages sent to lawmakers earlier this month.
Pathologists used the CAP's Action Center to encourage senators to support the proposal. The senators said the 2025 cut represents the fifth consecutive year that the Medicare program has published a physician fee schedule lowering payments to physicians. "The persistent instability in the health care sector—due, in part, to consistent payment cuts—impacts the ability of physicians and clinicians to provide the highest quality of care," they said.