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- CAP Pushes Congress to Pass Latest 2025 Medicare Pay Fix Plan
With a government funding deadline looming on December 20, Congress released just this afternoon a 2025 spending plan that included relief from Medicare payment cuts to physician services. The CAP applauded the proposal and continues to press lawmakers to enact the relief ahead of an expected 2.5% cut to Medicare pay for pathology services effective on January 1, 2025.
The three-month 2025 spending plan includes a Medicare physician pay increase of 2.5% for one year. Absent congressional intervention, the 2.5% cut would affect all pathology and other physician services next year.
The CAP has lobbied Congress throughout 2024 to avert all Medicare decreases to pathology payment. Recently, the CAP set up an action alert for pathologists to urge their representatives and senators to support a pay fix in 2025. Pathologists can still easily send a message in support of this solution to their legislators.
Other policy wins in the spending plan championed by the CAP include a 3.53% bonus for participation in an Advanced Alternative Payment Model.
The CAP will continue to update members on the status of year-end congressional action.