Medical Economics November 6, 2023
Proposed rule details fines for hospitals, clinicians and ACOs
The federal government is wants to crack down on information blocking by health care providers.
Last week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a proposed rule that would allow the Office of the Inspector General to penalize providers who have engaged in information blocking. HHS defines information blocking as knowingly and unreasonably interfering with “the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information except as required by law or covered by a regulatory exception.”
Micky Tripathi, Ph.D., M.P.P. national coordinator for health information technology (ONC) at HHS and Jonathan Blum, principal deputy administrator and chief operating officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, explained in...
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