Take Action on PFS Rule for CY2022

Take Action: Ask Your Representative to Take Action and Stop the 20% Reimbursement Cuts to Medicare Specialty Providers!

Tell Congress to support the bipartisan Medicare Stability for Patients and Providers Act (H.R. 6048). The new legislation, introduced by U.S. Representatives Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), would stop the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from implementing the updated clinical labor policy in the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS).

The clock is ticking. Congress must take action to instruct the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) not to implement deep, across-the-board 20% payment cuts to office-based specialty providers in the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Rule for CY2022.

ACRO is partnering with USPA in asking providers to let members of Congress know why H.R. 6048 is important to protecting access to quality health care for patients. View the full text of the bill here.

If not addressed by the end of the year, these painful cuts will force the closure of specialists providing services to cancer patients, dialysis patients, limb salvage patients, women seeking fibroid embolization and many others. Each of these conditions disproportionately impact minority patients and the closure of these specialty providers will exacerbate health inequity, health system consolidation, reduce Medicare beneficiary access and increase Medicare program costs and beneficiary copays.

In addition, USPA and ACRO are both asking providers to contact members of the Congressional Tri-Caucus – which is composed of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus— and ask them to support the Congressional Tri-Caucus letter that urges Congress to direct CMS not to proceed with the implementation of the clinical labor update at this time. Click here to view a PDF of the letter.