Dear Speaker Pelosi and Leaders Schumer, McConnell, and McCarthy:
On behalf of the undersigned organizations, representing over one million physician and non-physician
health care providers, thank you for your ongoing support for Medicare beneficiaries and the health care
provider community. Congress’ willingness to ensure greater financial stability in the Medicare program
for 2021 — by mitigating significant cuts generated within the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS)
via a 3.75% Conversion Factor (CF) increase for all services — avoided significant disruptions to care for
Medicare beneficiaries, supported small health care businesses — especially in rural and underserved
areas — and provided a lifeline for health care providers still reeling from the residual impacts of the
COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, this temporary measure did not address the ongoing structural
problems with the MPFS, and the provider community is again bracing for steep cuts in 2022, which
could result in many beneficiaries losing timely access to essential health care services. To avoid this
scenario, our organizations urge Congress to maintain the 3.75% increase to the CF through at least
calendar years 2022 and 2023.
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