By Vanessa Candelora – In our May 2025 HIT Perspectives article, we unpacked the decade-long journey of healthcare price transparency and why most stakeholders would agree we’re still not where we need to be. Despite multiple rounds of rulemaking, patient usage of price tools remains low, and many organizations remain out of compliance with core requirements.
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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.
By Bernard J. Wolfson – Republican efforts to restrict taxes on hospitals, health plans, and other providers that states use to help fund their Medicaid programs could strip them of tens of billions of dollars. The move could shrink access to health care for some of the nation’s poorest and most vulnerable people, warn analysts, patient advocates, and Democratic political leaders.
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.
CMS will host a demonstration webinar on Thursday, June 26, 2025, from 1 – 3 p.m. ET to provide information on the Qualified Clinical Data Registry and Qualified Registry Self-Nomination processes for the 2026 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance period
The EHR Association shared its feedback on two NPRMs recently: to ASTP/ONC regarding the 2025 Standards Version Advancement Process (SVAP), and to CMS regarding the FY 2026 IPPS proposed rule (CMS–1833–P).
CMS opened the Doctors and Clinicians Preview Period on Tuesday, May 27, 2025.The Preview Period gives clinicians and groups the ability to review their 2023 QPP performance information before it’s publicly reported on the profile pages of clinicians and groups on the Medicare.gov compare tool and in the Provider Data Catalog.
By Mary Griskewicz – CMS has reengaged with the healthcare industry and the public for comment after a period of silence, now with the Department’s reorganization well underway. In a relatively short period, CMS has put out three requests for information, new strategic guidance for its Center of Innovation, and announced rescinding previously published documentation.