Q&A: Medicare PFS will benefit primary care, but budget neutrality is ‘the bigger issue’

Several changes in the 2026 Medicare Physicians Fee Schedule, or PFS, will help to better support primary, preventive and comprehensive health care, according to several organizations.
For example, the PFS introduces an efficiency adjustment that ACP said “will help account for how clinical practices and resource utilization patterns evolve and better align payments with those changes.”
The Primary Care Collaborative similarly applauded practice expense reimbursement reform, as well as improvements to the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program and Advanced Primary Care Management