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HRA Endorses Request to Congress for AHRQ Funding in Fiscal Year 2026
To ensure adequate federal funding for health care programs and research, HRA, along with nearly 200 other organizations, supported a sign-on letter to Congress calling…
March 4, 2025
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HRA Continues to Push Congress to Address 2025 Medicare Physician Payment Cuts
As lawmakers work to revive the year-end health care package that was dropped from the scaled back continuing resolution (CR) passed by Congress in December,…
March 4, 2025
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HRA Members Urged to Contact Members of Congress to Extend Telehealth Flexibilities
The government funding package passed by Congress in December included a short-term extension of telehealth flexibilities, including those related to geographic requirements and originating sites,…
March 4, 2025
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HRA Joins the Regulatory Relief Coalition to Advocate for Prior Authorization Reform
HRA recently joined the Regulatory Relief Coalition, a group of national medical specialty societies advocating for legislative and regulatory burden reduction in Medicare.
March 4, 2025
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HRS Monitoring Deregulation Executive Orders
HRS is continuing to monitor recent actions by the new Administration focused on deregulation. In mid-February, President Trump issued an executive order (EO) directing federal…
March 4, 2025
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HRA/HRS Support Medicare Coverage of Cardiac Contractility Modulation (CCM) for Heart Failure
HRA/HRS joined the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) in submitting joint comments to the Centers for Medicare &…
March 4, 2025
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HRS Quality Reporting Update: CMS Offers Automatic MIPS Exception for California Wildfires
CMS recently announced that the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) automatic Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) policy will apply to MIPS eligible clinicians in designated…
March 4, 2025
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HRS Reviewing Draft USCDI v6
The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (hereafter ASTP) is accepting public comments on the recently released Draft…
March 4, 2025
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HRA Monitoring MedPAC Payment Update Recommendations for 2026
HRA continues to monitor Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) recommendations for Medicare payment updates in 2026, which were voted on during the Commission’s January meeting.
February 4, 2025
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HRA to Recommend Funding for HEARTS Act
The HEARTS Act (H.R. 6829) was signed into law by President Biden on December 23, 2024.
February 4, 2025