Neurosurgery Joins AMA in Urging Congress to Prevent Medicare Cuts

• The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
  Speaker
  U.S. House of Representatives
  Washington, DC 20515
• The Honorable Charles Schumer
  Majority Leader
  U.S. Senate
  Washington, DC 20510
• The Honorable Kevin McCarthy
  Minority Leader
  U.S. House of Representatives
  Washington, DC 20515
• The Honorable Mitch McConnell
  Minority Leader
  U.S. Senate
  Washington, DC 20510

Dear Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Schumer, Leader McConnell, and Leader McCarthy:

The American Medical Association (AMA) and undersigned national specialty and state medical societies representing the vast majority of physicians practicing in the United States continue to be deeply alarmed about the mounting financial instability of the Medicare physician payment system.

This instability is being driven by a confluence of fiscal uncertainties physician practices face related to statutory payment cuts, perennial lack of inflationary updates, significant administrative barriers, and the cumulative impact of the pandemic. The Medicare payment system remains on an unsustainable path threatening beneficiaries’ access to physicians.

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