Modern Healthcare March 27, 2020
An already tight timeline for complying with the CMS’ new interoperability regulations could put a strain on insurers as they tackle the COVID-19 outbreak.
The CMS’ interoperability rule, released earlier this month, includes a host of deadlines related to data-sharing, spanning from later this year to 2022. One of the main provisions is that CMS-regulated insurers like those with Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed care offerings will be required to get processes up and running so that beneficiaries can download claims and encounter data using third-party apps.
To do that, insurers will have to implement application programming interfaces—better known as APIs—by January 2021, just over nine months from when the final rules were released.
Before the coronavirus outbreak, that was...