Policy Blog

More than 40,000 comments were filed on this year’s physician fee schedule, and almost none will be read by the people they matter to most. Half the arguments sit in attachments, form letters can fill a quarter of a docket, and 1,280 hospital outpatient comments named no organization at all, MedPAC’s among them. SHP Comment Intelligence reads the whole rule and the whole record. Every letter and attachment is coded against a taxonomy we build together, each position cited with a direct quote and page, then checked by someone who has written those letters. Send me the rule and the issues you care about, and I’ll tell you what the record holds, in days.