ASAM & ACAAM Comment on CMS Rule for GME Fellowships

ASAM and the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine (ACAAM) provided comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding a proposed rule to implement 200 new residency/fellowship slots by fiscal year 2026. This rule implements provisions from the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 that mandates that at least half of these residencies/fellowships be allocated for psychiatry or psychiatry subspecialties. The signatories also called on CMS to work with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to revise the mental health health professional shortage area (HPSA) definition and related criterion to include clinicians that specialize in treating SUD.

Read the letter here.