Monday Morning Rounds with CMS
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TEFCA Will Soon Be Live and Add Support for FHIR-Based Exchange
By Mark Knee & Jawanna Henry – In January 2022, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Version 1 of the Common Agreement was released. A year later, six organizations became candidate QHINs and committed to complete “onboarding” and “go live” by the end of 2023 – we are still on target!
A Step Where a Leap is Needed
By Matt Fisher – As part of its annual summer tradition, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published the proposed 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule with some seeming shakeups to reimbursements. A relatively small part of the proposed rule could be a pebble being taken out of a dam that enables more change to flow.
What’s Happening at the ONC
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 new proposals to establish disincentives for health care providers, a webinar to learn about the proposals in the rule, an updated version of the Security Risk Assessment Tool, & more.
CMS Finalizes Physician Payment Rule that Advances Health Equity
CMS announced it is finalizing policies to support primary care, advance health equity, assist family caregivers and expand access to behavioral and certain oral health care.
Consequences for Information Blocking
By Micky Tripathi & Jonathan Blum – A new proposed rule released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services details HHS’ first steps for holding health care providers accountable for information blocking under the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act).
HHS Proposes Rule to Establish Disincentives for Information Blocking
Proposed rule for public comment establishes disincentives for health care providers found by the HHS OIG to have committed information blocking. In cases of knowingly and unreasonably interferes with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information.
Monday Morning Rounds with CMS
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.
Wave 6 Clinician Expert Workgroup Webinars on Cost Measure Development
CMS has contracted with Acumen, LLC to develop episode-based cost measures for their potential use in the cost performance category of MIPS. Part of Wave 6 of measure development, Acumen convenes Clinician Expert Workgroups to provide input on all components of cost measure specifications.