H.R. 879 · 119th Congress

Raises Medicare physician fee schedule payments by 6.62% for April through December 2025

Official title: Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 20251

Never got a floor voteMedicare payments to doctors

§1What it does

Why this matters: A plain-English description of the bill as it was voted on, written by us from the official summary and text.

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This bill would increase payments under the Medicare physician fee schedule, the rates Medicare pays doctors and other practitioners, by 6.62% for services provided from April 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025.2,3,4 It would do this by extending into 2025 a temporary payment increase that Congress provided for 2021 through 2024 to help practitioners adjust to Medicare payment changes.4

§2Status

StatusLatest action, January 31, 2025: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.1
IntroducedJanuary 31, 2025
SponsorRep. Murphy, Gregory F. [R-NC-3]
Cosponsors198 cosponsors (117 Democratic, 81 Republican)
Official recordH.R. 879 on Congress.gov

§3It never got a vote

Why this matters: This bill had wide support from both parties, but it never reached the House or Senate floor, so no member of Congress was ever recorded voting for or against it.

Latest action, January 31, 2025: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.1 How bills die without a vote.

2026 candidates who sponsored or cosponsored it (171)