On March 15, 2018, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) released its March 2018 Report to the Congress regarding Medicare payment policy. The report includes MedPAC’s recommendations for how Congress should update payment rates in fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare for 2019. MedPAC is recommending that the payment rates for acute-care hospitals (inpatient and outpatient services) and for physicians and other healthcare professionals should be updated by the amount determined under current law, which are projected to be 1.25 percent and 0.25 percent, respectively. The report also recommends the elimination of the MIPS program. Based on several concerns detailed in the SCAI’s “Highlight of MedPAC report”, SCAI will continue to closely monitor these developments and is actively engaged through the Alliance of Specialty Medicine in pursuit of a meeting with HHS Secretary Alex Azar to discuss our concerns with this MedPAC report.