SHM provides comments on proposals for changes to inpatient admission orders documentation requirements and hospital-level performance measures.

SHM submitted comments on this year’s fee schedule including evaluation and management guidelines, PQRS reporting, and MACRA.

SHM submitted comments to CMS on proposed changes to the Quality Payment Program (QPP)/MACRA including facility alignment.

Along with other organizations, SHM signs on to a letter voicing concerns on provisions of the Program Integrity to the Provider Enrollment Process proposed rule.

SHM sends a letter to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in support of Scott Gottlieb, MD as Commissioner of FDA.

SHM comments on the quality improvement section of the proposed Common Rule changes from the Office for Human Resarch Protections (OHRP)

SHM submitted comments to CMS surrounding the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), that replaced the SGR and makes changes to physician payment.

SHM sent comments to Medicare on their Measure Development Plan for MIPS and APM transition.

SHM signs onto letter to CMS, alongside coalition of 22 organizations, stating support for antibiotic stewardship provisions in the Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Conditions of

SHM comments on the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System’s proposed changes to the 2-Midnight rule.