CMS August 2, 2018
Changes in the Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System final rule will advance price transparency and electronic health records
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule to empower patients and advance the White House MyHealthEData initiative and the CMS Patients Over Paperwork initiative. This final rule and others issued earlier this week will help improve access to hospital price information, give patients greater access to their health information and allow clinicians to spend more time with their patients.
Individually and collectively, these final rules put patients first, ease provider burden, and make significant strides in modernizing Medicare. The final rule issued today makes updates to Medicare payment policies and rates...