Fierce Health Technology March 9, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) new interoperability rule will require major changes for payers and hospitals to provide patients access to their health information.
The Interoperability and Patient Access final rule will require, among other things, that Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and qualified health plans make enrollee data immediately accessible by January 2021.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the rule will help bring the health system’s data-sharing capacity out of the “stone age.”
It was one of two rules issued by the Department of Health and Human Services Monday to implement interoperability and patient access provisions of the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act.
“These rules begin a new chapter...
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