FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
November 10, 2025

Media Contact:
Samantha Tirado
Director of Policy Communications 
stirado@mgma.org 
 

MGMA Statement on Senate Passed Funding Package (November 10, 2025)

Anders Gilberg
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs
Medical Group Management Association

"MGMA is pleased to see the Senate extend critical Medicare telehealth policies and the 1.0 work RVU Geographic Practice Cost Indices (GPCI) floor, as well as delay the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) cuts to clinical labs until January 30, 2026. While this latest legislative reprieve provides temporary relief for medical practices, congressional failure to enact permanent solutions to these key policies makes it impossible to maintain stable workflows and negatively impacts patient care. MGMA urges Congress to enact a permanent work GPCI floor, pass a minimum two-year extension of Medicare telehealth flexibilities, fix broken PAMA lab policies, and reinstate the advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) incentive program dropped from last December's continuing resolution. 

As the end-of-year fast approaches for Americans who rely on the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits, Congress must find a bipartisan resolution to avoid the loss of insurance coverage for millions of our patients. Not having a plan to provide coverage for Americans who rely on the ACA is not an actual healthcare plan and will only shift the burden of uncompensated care onto our nation's already overburdened hospitals and medical practices."

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About MGMA

Founded in 1926, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) is the nation's largest association focused on the business of medical practice management. MGMA consists of 15,000 group medical practices ranging from small private medical practices to large national health systems representing more than 350,000 physicians. MGMA helps nearly 60,000 medical practice leaders and the healthcare community solve the business challenges of running practices so that they can focus on providing outstanding patient care. Specifically, MGMA helps its members innovate and improve profitability and financial sustainability, and it provides the gold standard on industry benchmarks such as physician compensation. The association also advocates extensively on its members' behalf on national regulatory and policy issues.