Lexology July 11, 2024
On June 24, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule establishing stringent financial penalties, referred to as “disincentives,” for healthcare providers found to have committed information blocking.
In instances where the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) finds a healthcare provider has committed information blocking and refers the matter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS has established several disincentives to be applied as follows:
- Under the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program, an eligible hospital or critical access hospital (CAH) that has committed information blocking will not be a meaningful electronic health record (EHR) user during the calendar year of the EHR reporting period in which OIG refers its determination...
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Topics: ASTP/ONC, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HHS, HIE (Interoperability), Provider, Technology