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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
SHM supports the reintroduction of the Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act. This legislation will make days spent in observation count towards Medicare’s three-day stay requirement for
SHM supports the reintroduction of the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act. This legislation will help ensure patients in underserved communities have access to high quality
On June 3rd, members of the Society of Hospital Medicine received an invitation to participate in the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC)
SHM supports the reintroduction of the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act. This legislation will recapture 40,000 unused employment-based visas and use them to expedite processing for immigrant
SHM sent a letter supporting the passage of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Act. This legislation represents a first step in addressing the crisis of burnout and mental health struggles
SHM responded to CMS' Request for Information (RFI) regarding their "Patients Over Paperwork" Initiative. We addressed excessive administrative burden related to observation care, the
SHM joined a multi-stakeholder letter urging the Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to finalize guidelines that would expand access to buprenorphine.
SHM joined the AMA and other medical societies in their support of the "Medicare Sequester COVID Moratorium Act." This legislation will extend the Congressional moratorium on Medicare sequester
SHM joined a multi-stakeholder letter with 118 stakeholders urging Senate and House appropriators in the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies. The letter requests a