President Biden Signs Law Delaying Medicare Payment Cuts

On December 10, 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law the "Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act" (S.610). In addition to establishing procedures to be used to increase the nation's debt limit, the Act makes a number of changes to the Medicare program that stakeholders have called for.

Stakeholders have argued that without these changes, Medicare fee-for-service payments could have fallen by $14.1 billion in 2022 alone.

The infographic below shows the five key Medicare takeaways from this Act.

The full text of the act is online.

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