New investments will make it easier for social workers to practice across state lines, increase behavioral health access, and better facilitate telehealth services; Funding builds on HRSA’s work to support licensure compacts to improve access to primary care and psychology.
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HHS, through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, released the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability (HTI-2) proposed rule for public comment.
The MIPS Annual Call for Improvement Activities process allows clinicians, professional associations and medical societies that represent clinicians, researchers, consumer groups, and others to identify and submit activities.
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Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program calendar year 2023 Hardship Exception application period is now open and deadline to submit is August 31, 2024 for eligible hospitals and November 30, 2024 for critical access hospitals.
CMS encourages you to submit improvement activities for consideration for future years of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System. The MIPS Annual Call for Improvement Activities process allows clinicians, professional associations and medical societies that represent clinicians, researchers, consumer groups, and others to identify and submit activities.
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including 2 new funding areas for LEAP, comment opportunity on the draft 2024-2030 Federal HealthIT Strategic Plan, and a upcoming quarterly ONC Health IT Certification Program Developer Roundtable.
CMS reminder that the deadline to request a 2025 Qualified Clinical Data Registry measure preview meeting with CMS and the Merit-based Incentive Payment System QCDR/Registry Support Team is May 17, 2024.
On April 10, 2024, CMS issued the fiscal year 2025 Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment system and long-term care hospital prospective payment system proposed rule. The proposed rule would update Medicare fee-for-service payment rates and policies for inpatient hospitals and LTCHs for FY 2025.