Fierce Healthcare June 24, 2024
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is locking in its enforcement strategy to keep healthcare providers from blocking access to electronic health information.
On Monday morning the department released its final rule (PDF) outlining disincentives for eligible hospitals or critical access hospitals, clinician groups and accountable care organizations (ACOs) found to have committed information blocking.
Its broad strokes are largely the same as the proposed rule HHS shared last fall, which outlined financial repercussions tied to Medicare program participation as well as the public disclosure of healthcare providers hit with information-blocking enforcement.
“This final rule is designed to ensure we always have access to our own health information and that our care teams have the benefit of this...
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