The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, today finalized its Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: ...

Digitizing prior authorization policies, meeting compliance timelines; and delegated third parties facing challenges ...

The health IT arm of the Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule this week that federal leaders say will remove red tape and enable faster prior authorization and real-time ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (Final Rule) on Jan. 17, 2024. The Final Rule continues CMS' efforts to encourage ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released a sweeping proposed rule Tuesday that includes plans to improve data sharing with public health authorities — a major ...

On Tuesday, December 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a proposed rule (“New Proposed Rule”) to improve the prior authorization process and advance interoperability for ...

The Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability rule, or HTI-2, doesn’t feature a number of provisions included in the ...

Building on the technological foundation of the May 2020 CMS Interoperability and Patient Access final rule (85 FR 25510), these API policies will improve patient, provider, and payer access to ...

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In a newly proposed rule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is changing prior authorization standards to speed up the time it takes for payers to approve the requests and is implementing ...

As the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the U.S., CMS is evaluating the timeline for its final interoperability rule that was released earlier this month. 1. The Health Information ...