Healthcare Finance News September 17, 2021
The decision to exercise enforcement discretion for the payer-to-payer policy doesn’t affect any other existing regulatory requirements.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced that it will not take enforcement action against certain payers for the payer-to-payer data exchange provision of the May 2020 Interoperability and Patient Access final rule until future rulemaking is finalized.
The agency’s decision to exercise enforcement discretion for the payer-to-payer policy doesn’t affect any other existing regulatory requirements and implementation timelines outlined in the final rule.
On July 1, two of the policies from the May 2020 Interoperability and Patient Access final rule went into effect. On April 30, the requirements for hospitals with certain EHR capabilities to send admission, discharge and transfer...