AHIMA October 31, 2023
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Oct. 30 issued a proposed rule to create disincentives for healthcare providers found by federal officials to have committed information blocking of electronic health information.
The proposal calls for establishing disincentives for certain healthcare providers through several existing Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) programs. The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) would determine which providers took part in information blocking after completing an investigation process.
Offending providers would face the following disincentives:
- In the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program, an eligible hospital or critical access hospital (CAH) would not be a meaningful electronic health record (EHR) user in an applicable EHR reporting period. Eligible hospitals would lose 75...
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