Manatt Health July 18, 2023
After a COVID-19-related delay, on June 27, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a long-awaited final rule that establishes monetary penalties for violations of health information technology (IT) information blocking rules.
The 21st Century Cures Act provided OIG the authority to investigate claims of information blocking and authorized HHS to impose civil monetary penalties (CMPs) against a defined set of individuals and entities that OIG determines have committed information blocking. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) published its final Information Blocking Rule in 2020, which defined “information blocking” as certain practices that interfere with the access to, exchange of or use of electronic health information (EHI). That rule...
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