Comment on CMS-2026-1256-0002

Summary: Tufts Medicine, a Massachusetts-based health system, opposes the proposed 2.4% payment update as insufficient to cover rising operational costs and inflation. They also request that CMS reconsider several specific proposals, including decreasing uncompensated care payments, reclassifying homelessness codes, and adding a sepsis readmission measure to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.