The No Surprises Act protects people covered under group and individual health plans from receiving surprise medical bills when they receive most emergency services, non-emergency services from out-of-network providers at in-network facilities, and services from out-of-network air ambulance service providers.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, in collaboration with standards development organizations and health IT stakeholders, released the Project US@ (‘Project USA’) Technical Specification Final Version 1.0.
CMS is accepting stakeholders’ recommendations regarding potential new specialty measure sets and/or revisions to existing specialty measure sets for the 2023 performance year of MIPS. Recommendations for new specialty sets or revisions to the 2022 specialty sets should be based on the established 2022 MIPS quality measures.
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 an ONC Artificial Intelligence Showcase, the ONC2022 Annual Meeting & the ONC Patient Access Summit.
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.
A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that massive increases in the use of telehealth helped maintain some health care access during the COVID-19 pandemic, with specialists like behavioral health providers seeing the highest telehealth utilization relative to other providers.
CMS opened the Doctors and Clinicians Preview Period on November 15, 2021. The Preview Period provides an opportunity for doctors and clinicians to review their 2020 QPP performance information before it’s publicly reported on clinician and group profile pages on Medicare Care Compare and in the Provider Data Catalog.
CMS is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, December 7 from 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. ET to provide an overview of MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs) development for the 2023 performance year of the Quality Payment Program and beyond.
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 several upcoming events to register for this week, including the Health IT Developer Certification & Testing Roundtable, the Information Sharing Virtual Office Hours & more.