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Provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14 › Section 71202

Temporary Payment Increase under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule to Account for Exceptional Circumstances

Section 71202 · Sec. 71202 ·

What this chapter is about

This part gives doctors a 2.5 percent Medicare pay rise for one year. It runs from January 1, 2026 to the end of that year. Two nearby rules are updated to match.

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The document says “is amendedWho acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 71202 in the PDF
What the document says

“such services furnished on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2027, by 2.5 percent.”

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Sec. 71202

The section adds a new subparagraph (F) to section 1848(t)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-4(t)) raising payment by 2.5 percent for services furnished on or after January 1, 2026 and before January 1, 2027, drops the years from the subsection heading, adds 2026 to the years the subsection covers, and makes a matching change in section 1848(c)(2)(B)(iv)(V).

What the document actually says

“such services furnished on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2027, by 2.5 percent.”

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Sec. 71202
That sentence, in plain words

Payment rises by 2.5 percent. That covers care given from January 1, 2026. It stops at the end of that year.

What this is about

The rise lasts one year only. Nearby wording is updated to match. The older law it sits in is not indexed here.

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What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

Both things the section does: add the 2.5 percent increase for 2026 and carry the year through the surrounding text, and make the conforming change.

The punctuation edits that make room for the new subparagraph.

The section works by amending section 1848 of the Social Security Act, which is not indexed here, so how the physician fee schedule works cannot be checked against anything on this site.