We Worked with AMA on Long-Term Medicare Fix

The work of organized medicine paid off in 2005 with a 1.5% increase in Medicare physician reimbursements-instead of a projected cut dictated by a faulty reimbursement formula.  With another cut projected for 2006, the work continued.

MSDC joined forces with the AMA, specialty societies and other state medical societies to prevent looming future cuts in physician reimbursements.

• We supported the Preserving Patient Access to Physicians Act of 2005 in the Senate, which would stop impending Medicare physician payment cuts. It calls for an increase of at least 2.7% in 2006 and 2.6% in 2007.
• We supported the Preserving Patient Access to Physicians Act of 2005 in the House, which would increase Medicare physician payments by at least 2.7% in 2006, and stop payment cuts in 2007 and beyond by replacing Medicare's flawed Sustainable Growth Rate Formula with a new formula that reflects changes in the Medicare Economic Index.
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More Medicare Efforts.

Physician Community Educated on Medicare Part D

Before members began receiving questions from patients on Medicare Part D-the next phase of the prescription drug benefit program-MSDC hosted a comprehensive seminar on the subject in partnership with the Greater Metropolitan District of Columbia Medical Group Management Association and underwritten by Rx4DC-a local project of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.  

Medicare Part D Took Kits Distributed to Members

MSDC worked with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide physicians with a tool kit outlining key dates associated with the roll-out of the program, the various choices available to beneficiaries, as well as brochures and other resources for patients.