Healthcare Informatics July 18, 2018
Mark Hagland

Industry leaders’ responses to the release of CMS’s proposed rule reveals a fascinating policy landscape

The release last Thursday of a proposed rule involving the Physician Fee Schedule and the Quality Payment Program under the Medicare program, by senior officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was a very important development for physicians, hospitals, healthcare IT leaders, and others. As Managing Editor Rajiv Leventhal wrote in his breaking-news report on Thursday evening, “The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today proposed changes that the agency believes will ‘fundamentally improve the nation’s healthcare system and help restore the doctor-patient relationship by empowering clinicians to use their electronic health records (EHRs) to document clinically meaningful information.’ These changes, according...

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Topics: CMS, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), Insurance, MACRA, Medicare, Payment Models, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Regulations, Technology, Value Based
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