SHM Submits Comments on the CY2026 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule
The Society of Hospital Medicine opposes CMS’s proposed cuts to facility-based Practice Expense Relative Value Units (PE RVUs), fearing substantial impacts on hospital medicine groups and patient care. They advocate for collaborative discussions on PE concerns, support eliminating telehealth frequency limits, and caution against mandatory reporting changes in the Quality Payment Program.
SHM Joins the AMA and Others Expressing Concern About MIPS Measures
Letter expresses concerns and continued frustration with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) process for reviewing and selecting quality measures for its programs.
SHM Supports Introduction of the Healthcare Workforce Reslilience Act
SHM supports this bipartisan legislation that will recapture unused employment-based visas and utilize them to help fill health care staffing shortages by expediting processing for immigrant physicians and nurses.
SHM Joins Multistakeholder Letter on Extending Hospital at Home
SHM joins the Moving Health Home Alliance on a letter to Congressional leaders asking for a five year extension of the acute hospital care at home waiver program.
SHM Signs Letter to Maintain Health Profession Exceptions to Student Loan Limits
SHM joins a community letter to the US Department of Education urging the preservation of existing federal loan limit exceptions for health profession students.
SHM joins the AMA to express support for evidence-based immunizations to help prevent severe disease and protect public health
SHM joins the AMA to express support for evidence-based immunizations to help prevent severe disease and protect public health.
Society of Hospital Medicine Response to Medicare Request for Information on “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation of the Medicare Program”
SHM submitted comments on proposed changes to Eliminate the Skilled Nursing Facility Three-Day Stay Rule, the CAH 96-Hour Rule, the Special Privacy Protections for Behavior Health Patients under 42 CFR Part 2, and to Standardize rules for Medicare Advantage Plans.
SHM Submits Comments on the 2026 IPPS Proposed Rule
SHM submitted comments on the 2026 IPPS Proposed Rule. SHM commented on proposed changes to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program, and more.
SHM Signs Letter of Support to Fully Fund the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
SHM signs letter urging Members of the House of Representatives to insist to their leadership that language addressing the 2025 Medicare physician payment
cut be added to the full year Continuing Resolution.
SHM Supports the Passage of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act (S. 266)
SHM signs letter urging Members of the House of Representatives to insist to their leadership that language addressing the 2025 Medicare physician payment
cut be added to the full year Continuing Resolution.