SHM submitted comments on the FY2020 Hospital Prospective Payment System proposed rule. Our comments address Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) measures related to hospital harms, opioid safety,

SHM, joined by IDSA, ACEP, EDPMA, and ASA, sends letter to CMS on issues with the hospital-based exemption from the Promoting Interoperability category of the MIPS.

SHM signs onto multi-stakeholder letter to CMS about the educational reporting requirements in the Open Payments Program.

SHM, joined by IDSA and AMDA, sends letter to the American Medical Association (AMA) encouraging work on refining facility-based Evaluation & Management (E&M) billing codes.

SHM submits comments on the HCAHPS survey pain communication questions in the 2019 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Rule.

Along with other organizations, SHM signed onto a letter urging CMS to reduce the reporting period for MIPS reporting.

SHM provides feedback to CMS on new hospital harm measures under development, including acute kidney injury, pressure ulcers, and opioid adverse events.

SHM submitted comments to Medicare via the development of episode-based cost measures in MIPS.

SHM submitted comments on aspects of the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), including updated measure sets and the NOTICE Act requirements surrounding observation status.

SHM sends letter to CMS Administrator Verma and HHS Secretary Price on reducing the regulatory burden in PQRS, VM, and MU programs.