Efficiency Adjustment Delay Act

This bill would bar Medicare from putting in place, before January 1, 2030, a November 2025 rule that applies an "efficiency adjustment" lowering work relative value units used to set physician payments. Within two years, the Secretary of Health and Human Services would have to report to Congress on whether a one-time, across-the-board adjustment is needed, with supporting evidence. If the report supports it, the adjustment could start in 2030 or later only after consulting affected physician specialties, excluding services reviewed in the past 10 years, and meeting limits on how it is calculated; it could be applied only once. The bill also raises the 2026 Medicare physician payment conversion factor updates to 1.24 percent and 0.74 percent, keeping 0.75 percent and 0.25 percent for 2027 and later years.

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Sponsors

• Ron Estes Republican sponsor
• 14 cosponsors