At the White House, tech leaders commit to create a Patient-Centric Healthcare Ecosystem. Administrator Oz secured commitments from major healthcare and IT firms, including Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Google, and OpenAI. to begin laying the foundation for a next-generation digital health ecosystem that will improve patient outcomes, reduce provider burden, and drive value.
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The following is communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on QPP and MIPS updates.
CMS is reopening the Preview Period because 17 additional QPP performance measures were recently identified to be included in the CY 2023 QPP public reporting information. CMS also made additional updates and display corrections to the CY 2023 QPP performance data available during the Preview Period that closed in June.
On July 15, 2025, CMS issued a proposed rule that proposes updates to Medicare payment policies and rates for hospital outpatient and Ambulatory Surgical Center services under the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and ASC Payment System Proposed Rule for calendar year 2026.
The calendar year 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule would advance primary care management through new quality measures, reduce waste and unnecessary use of skin substitutes, and introduce a new payment model focused on improving care for chronic disease management.
As of July 1, 2025, the 2026 Self-Nomination period for Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDRs) and Qualified Registries is now open. QCDRs and Qualified Registries are Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services -approved intermediaries that collect clinical data on behalf of clinicians for data submission.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) has released and are highlighting evaluation reports and publications. See the findings for several of their models.
The 2026 Self-Nomination Toolkit for Qualified Clinical Data Registries and Qualified Registries, including the below files, are now posted on the QPP Resource Library.
HHS Secretary Kennedy and CMS Administrator Oz press conference on securing industry pledges to fix the broken Prior Authorization System. They met with insurance leaders of nearly 80% of covered Americans.