Healthcare DIVE June 28, 2023
Rebecca Pifer

Dive Brief:

  • The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized penalties for health IT companies found blocking the electronic flow of health information, freeing regulators to start investigating the backlog of information blocking complaints.
  • The HHS Office of Inspector General final rule enacts statutory penalties created by the 21st Century Cures Act, including fines of up to $1 million per information blocking violation.
  • Regulators have yet to codify information blocking penalties for providers, a separate rule that’s been held up amid enforcement complexity and is now expected to be published this fall.

Dive Insight:

The Office of the National Coordinator in 2020 finalized long-awaited regulations requiring providers, health information exchanges and health IT developers certified by ONC to share data...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, Cures Act, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HHS, OIG, Provider, Technology
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