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- Congress Fails to Enact Medicare Pay Fix
Federal lawmakers have adjourned without passing legislation to stop payment cuts to Medicare services for physicians in 2025. House leadership initially proposed a 2.5% Medicare payment increase to offset the impending cut as part of a larger spending bill, but the proposal was eventually dropped along with many others after legislators expressed concern over the size of the year-end legislative package.
The CAP strongly opposes the 2.5% cut to Medicare payment for pathology services in 2025. The CAP will continue to urge the next administration and Congress to reverse the cut and enact long-term Medicare payment reform. Some lawmakers are already signaling their support for enacting a Medicare payment fix in March and apply it retroactively to January 1.