CMS says it wants to cut red tape for docs. It just created an ‘Office of Burden Reduction’

Fierce Health Technology June 23, 2020
Heather Landi

The Trump administration is creating a new office to focus on reducing health providers’ regulatory and administrative burdens.

The new Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is an outgrowth of the agency’s Patients over Paperwork initiative launched three years ago CMS said in a press release Tuesday. That initiative focuses on eliminating duplicative, unnecessary, and excessively costly requirements and regulations.

CMS said it wants to permanently embed a culture of burden reduction across all platforms of agency operations.

“The Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics will ensure the agency’s commitment to reduce administrative costs and enact meaningful and lasting change in our nation’s health care system,” said CMS Administrator...

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