On April 1, 2014, President Obama signed into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014. This law prevents a scheduled payment reduction for physicians and other practitioners who treat Medicare patients from taking effect on April 1, 2014. It also maintains the 0.5% update for such services that applied from January 1, 2014 through March 31, 2014 for the period April 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014. The law provides a 0% update to the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) through March 31, 2015. Go to Law on govtrack.us Information from CMS [PDF]
