Medicare payment reform

The issue

For years, physicians have experienced pay cut after pay cut for the amount they are reimbursed for providing care to Medicare patients. These repeated cuts leave some physicians struggling to pay the bills and at risk of closing their practice. Some are even retiring early because of the financial burden. This unsustainable payment system is contributing to a growing physician shortage and causing many patients throughout America to experience health care access delays. Without Congressional action, this system will continue to threaten every patient’s care, not just Medicare patients. 

We have fought for Medicare physician payment reform for well over a decade, yet Congress continues to implement temporary patches instead of fixing the root of the problem—the payment system itself. 

Learn more at FixMedicareNow.org.

What a reformed system would look like

A reformed system would fairly reimburse physicians for the care they provide Medicare patients, helping to stabilize practices across the nation, especially in rural and underserved areas. 

We need your help calling on Congress to take action! While they recently passed the reconciliation package – the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" – which includes a temporary 2.5% physician payment increase in 2026, it fails to address the root problem: the lack of a long-term, sustainable solution to protect patients' access to care and stabilize physician practices.

Contact your members of Congress and urge them to pass long-term physician payment reform.