Medicare Payment Action Kit

On June 24, 2010, Congress passed a six-month Medicare patch providing a 2.2 percent positive update and a temporary reprieve for seniors and the physicians who care for them. In December, without action by Congress, the Medicare physician payment cut will be a whopping 23 percent, increasing to nearly 30 percent in January 2011.  

With baby boomers beginning to enter into Medicare in just six months, the physician payment problem must be addressed or these new Medicare patients won’t be able to find a doctor to treat them. Congress must act to replace the broken physician payment system before the cost to fix it grows even larger. Call your members of Congress at (800) 833-6354 and demand they fix the problem once and for all.