Lexology March 11, 2020
Crowell & Moring LLP

On March 9th, CMS finalized the long-awaited regulations on Interoperability and Patient Access (the “Patient Access Rule”) to require all CMS Payers to provide patients easy access to their claims and encounter information, as well as certain clinical information, through third-party applications of their choice.

This rule, released on the same day as the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) final rule 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program (the “ONC Rule”), uses CMS’ authority to advance interoperability and patient access to electronic health information by imposing standards-based application programming interface (API) access and use requirements on CMS Payers. The Patient Access Rule also finalizes important Conditions of Participation...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, CMS, Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Insurance, Privacy / Security, Provider, Regulations, Technology
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