Comment Letter

100+ Representatives Urge Collaboration on Medicare Physician Payment Reform

  • Reimbursement and Practice Management
  • The Honorable Kevin McCarthy
    Speaker of the House
    U.S. House of Representatives
    H-232, U.S. Capitol
    Washington, DC 20515
  • The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries
    Minority Leader
    U.S. House of Representatives
    H-204, U.S. Capitol
    Washington, DC 20515

Dear Speaker McCarthy and Leader Jefferies:

We write again to bring to your attention a matter of great urgency. Financial uncertainty in our nation’s health care system has been growing for years, and further escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite spending significantly more on health care than other industrialized countries, the United States continues to face poorer health outcomes and is experiencing a critical shortage of health care providers. A contributing factor is our Medicare payment system, which has failed to maintain levels of provider reimbursement that adequately incentivize high quality care.

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