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.
SHM Signs Multi-stakeholder Letter Urging Congress to Extend the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) Program Waiver
The waiver for allowing for the expansion of the Hospital at Home program is set to expire in March 2025. SHM joins a multi-stakeholder letter urging Congress to extend the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) waiver program for 5-years.
SHM Offers Comments on Proposed Rule Changes to 2026 Medicare Advantage
SHM offered comments on the proposed Contract Year 2026 Medicare Advantage proposed rule strengthening rules around MA plan coverage criteria and prior authorizations.
SHM Signs On to Letter to Representatives Suozzi and Luttrell on Healthcare Immigration Priorities
SHM joins 32 other organizations in thanking Representatives Tom Suozzi and Morgan Luttrell for including the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act in their immigration working group legislative framework. The letter also urges inclusion of the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act.
SHM Joins the Federation Letter Urging Congress to Stop Medicare Pay Cuts
SHM, along with numerous specialty and state medical societies, calls on Congress to pass H.R. 10073 before the end of the year to stop the impending Medicare pay cuts and provide a payment update.
SHM Signs Multi-Stakeholder Letter to FDA on IV Fluid Shortage
On behalf of the undersigned medical organizations, the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is writing to you to express our deep concern about the significant supply chain disruptions resulting from the damage inflicted by Hurricane Helene on Baxter’s North Cove manufacturing site in North Carolina. The undersigned organizations represent hundreds of thousands of clinicians who care for patients in hospital and out-of-hospital settings, emergency medical services (EMS) systems, and other healthcare facilities.
SHM Signs Joint Statement in Opposition to Legislative Interference in the Patient-Physician Relationship
In light of the Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health System, SHM, alongside 74 other medical and specialty societies, oppose legislative interference into the physician-patient relationship.
SHM Submits Comments to Senate Finance Committee White Paper on Chronic Care
SHM has submitted comments to the Senate Finance Committee’s White Paper addressing efforts to improve the care of chronic conditions.
SHM Supports the Reintroduction of the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act
SHM supports the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act. This legislation will help protect patients from unnecessary care delays by streamlining and standardizing prior authorization under the Medicare Advantage (MA) program.