On 17 January 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule outlining new interoperability and prior authorization requirements for certain payors (Final Rule). 1 With ...

As part of its ongoing mission to modernize and improve the interoperability of the health care system, on January 17, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the CMS ...

Two healthcare provider groups, the American Hospital Association and the Medical Group Management Association, have both responded critically to the Department of Health and Human Services' ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Rule on Wednesday. CMS said the rule will improve the prior authorization process and save ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is locking in its enforcement strategy to keep healthcare providers from blocking access to electronic health information. On Monday morning the ...

Medicare payments could soon be on the line for hospitals and doctor’s offices found blocking the free electronic flow of health information. That’s if a new rule proposed by the HHS on Monday is ...

The American Hospital Association is urging federal health IT officials to scale back and slow portions of a proposed interoperability overhaul, warning that eliminating key certification requirements ...

Providers face monetary disincentives for violating information blocking, under a proposed rule released today by the Department of Health and Human Services. The proposed rule, with 60-day comment ...

Here are nine things to know: 1. The EHR vendor pledged to have all its customers commit to joining the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA, a government-sponsored ...