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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 joined a call to action urging for the development of a federal commission to address Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (also known as long-COVID or PASC).
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
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 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
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
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 joined a multi-stakeholder letter urging Congress to expand access to buprenorphine. The letter urged Congress to include legislation to address the opioid epidemic in the upcoming COVID
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.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has halted plans to expand access to buprenorphine and eliminate the X-waiver.