Healthcare IT Today December 22, 2020
CMS has released a proposed rule that will require Medicaid managed care plans and other insurers offering products on the ACA Exchanges to support the sharing of patient data amongst themselves.
The announcement follows the release of the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule in July, which requires all health plans doing business with the federal government patients’ data readily available to the 85 million patients in CMS-regulated health plans.
The agency had already released Blue Button 2.0, an HL7 FHIR-based API making Medicare claims data available to patients across multiple devices. To date, CMS estimates, Blue Button 2.0 has delivered data to more than 60 million Medicare beneficiaries.
Under the terms of the final rule, payers do not need...
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