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  • Advocating for standards around the study, treatment, management, and physician reimbursement/coding for cardiac rhythm disorders
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Comment Letter

HRS Endorses Bipartisan Legislation to Completely Eliminate the 3.37% Medicare Payment Cut in 2024

A bipartisan group of House members introduced legislation that, if enacted, would completely eliminate the 3.37% Medicare Physician Fee Schedule cut set to take effect…

December 10, 2023

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Ask Your Members of Congress to Urge Congressional Leaders to Stop the 3.37% Cut to the 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

HRS urges you to push your Members of Congress to co-sign the Dear Colleague letter to Congressional leaders to stop the impending 3.37% fee schedule…

November 28, 2023

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HRS Urges Congress to Avert the 3.37% Cut to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

HRS along with more than 100 other national and state medical societies call on Congress to quickly pass legislation to stop the 3.37% fee schedule…

November 16, 2023

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HRS Submits Comments on CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule for Calendar Year 2024

HRS submitted its comments in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed payment and policy changes for physician services for calendar…

September 11, 2023

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HRS Submits Comments on CMS Proposed Pathway for Transitional Coverage for Emerging Technologies (TCET)

HRS submitted comments in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed pathway to make medical technologies more accessible and available to…

August 28, 2023

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HRS Urges CMS to Clarify Shared Decision-Making Requirement for LAAC

The Heart Rhythm Society, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions, and the American College of Cardiology sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare…

June 28, 2023

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HRS Joins Letter Urging Caution on EPA Proposal to Regulate Ethylene Oxide

HRS joins coalition in a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging the agency to work with the FDA and public stakeholders to implement…

June 27, 2023

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Comment Letter

HRS Voices Support for Expansion of GME Legislation

HRS and nearly 80 organizations sent letters to the House and Senate leaders in support of the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act (S. 1302).

May 22, 2023

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Comment Letter

End of the Federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

The date May 11, 2023, marks the end of the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) declaration under Section 319 of the Public Health Service…

May 11, 2023

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HRS Signs Letter of Support for Legislation to Stabilize Medicare Physician Payment

HRS and more than 100 national and state medical societies commended House of Representatives Raul Ruiz, Larry Bucshon, Ami Bera, and Mariannette Miller-Meeks for introducing…

April 24, 2023

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