The NCMS Keeps Pounding – “Fix Medicare Payment!”

 If you’ve been to a Carolina Panthers football game, you are familiar with the slogan – KEEP POUNDING!

That’s exactly what the North Carolina Medical Society is doing in the ongoing effort to avert the 2.8% Medicare physician payment cut.  The NCMS, along with many partner organizations, has made Medicare payment reform a priority this past year and is turning up the intensity as year-end approaches.  The payment cut is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2025.

Recently, the NCMS joined national and state medical societies in a joint message to congressional leadership imploring them to take action.  You can do the same.  The AMA and many of the national specialty academies have set up online links to connect with our offices on Capitol Hill and to advance the push for support of H.R. 10073. This legislation was recently introduced in the US House by Rep. Greg Murphy, MD (NC-3), a practicing urologist in Greenville, NC, and would avert the payment cut as well as add a positive payment adjustment to help offset the increased practice costs projected for 2025.

Contacting your US House office to encourage support of H.R. 10073 is as simple as clicking HERE.

Also, your patients are an untapped resource in convincing Congress to take action.   Enlist your patients’ support by posting this notice and sharing it with a request to take the simple steps to reach out to those who represent us in Washington.  It includes a QR code to help make that connection.

Please encourage your colleagues to engage in this effort as well and if you hear back from your member of Congress, please forward their reply to help our ability to follow up and continue our work toward a payment fix.