Support legislation to delay the implementation of an efficiency adjustment to work relative value units under the Medicare physician fee schedule.

Mr. Estes (for himself and Mr. Suozzi) introduced the following bill: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to delay the implementation of an efficiency adjustment to work relative value units under the Medicare physician fee schedule.

Estes introduced a bill to delay a Medicare physician fee schedule efficiency adjustment.

H.R. 7520 (IH) - Efficiency Adjustment Delay Act - BILLS-119hr7520ih | Content Details | GovInfo
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Congress.gov lists Ron Estes as Republican, House Kansas District 4, serving in the 115th-119th Congresses from 2017 to present.

Establishes the relevant federal service window for assessing the promise.

unresolved unknown

Representative Ron Estes profile, Congress.gov
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The Ron Estes member-activity page lists H.R.6545, 118th Congress, the Physician Fee Schedule Update and Improvements Act, sponsored by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, introduced December 1, 2023, with latest action referral to the Subcommittee on Health and status Introduced.

Shows Estes had member activity on a Medicare physician-fee-schedule bill, but the bill remained introduced and did not become law in the 118th Congress.

partial later_term A for effort

Ron Estes Member Activity, Congress.gov, page 2
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Congress.gov describes H.R.6545 as a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make improvements to the physician fee schedule under the Medicare program; latest action was December 17, 2024 referral to the Subcommittee on Health, with status Introduced.

Confirms the related legislation did not pass, so it is evidence of effort rather than policy delivery.

partial later_term A for effort

H.R.6545 - Physician Fee Schedule Update and Improvements Act, Congress.gov
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Section 2 of H.R.6545 is titled “Extending floor for work geographic index” and would amend Social Security Act section 1848(e)(1)(E) by striking “January 20, 2024” and inserting “January 1, 2025.”

The bill would delay a Medicare physician fee schedule work-index change, which is related to work RVU payment calculations, but it is not direct proof of enacted delay of the claimed efficiency adjustment.

partial later_term A for effort

Text of H.R.6545 - Physician Fee Schedule Update and Improvements Act, Congress.gov
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Congress.gov records H.R.133 as Public Law No. 116-260, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, enacted December 27, 2020.

An enacted Medicare-related omnibus law existed during Estes’s federal service, but the accessible Congress.gov summary used here did not establish that Estes supported or that the law included the specific claimed efficiency-adjustment delay.

unresolved same_term

H.R.133 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Congress.gov
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