2025 health care agenda: The IRA 9/13 rule

Five-year update to the 2021 National Academy of Medicine report finds little progress on access and calls for universal primary care coverage, more investment and a bigger workforce.

CMS scaled back its same-day E/M payment cut in the final 2027 physician fee schedule, but the 20% reduction still costs practices money and patients time. Here's what practices should audit now and what physicians should ask Congress before the lame-duck session ends.

Internal medicine and medical group leaders want a permanent fix for Medicare pay, while telehealth and speech-language groups focus on new billing rules.

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Will primary care actually get paid more under the 2027 MPFS? Here's how to get ready for it

Physician groups welcomed new payments for coaching, group visits and behavioral health integration, but warned that cuts due Jan. 1 will take an act of Congress to stop.

Most physicians face a 2.31% conversion factor cut in January, while CMS pared back its same-day payment reduction and pushed the end of traditional MIPS to 2031.

Physicians Foundation president responds to congressional election results and potential mandate to address health care costs.