Healthcare Finance News October 30, 2023
HHS released information blocking proposed rule with monetary disincentives to increase electronic health information sharing.
Providers face monetary disincentives for violating information blocking, under a proposed rule released today by the Department of Health and Human Services.
The proposed rule with 60-day comment period, would establish disincentives for healthcare providers found by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) to have committed information blocking. This is when a provider knowingly and unreasonably interferes with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information except as required by law or covered by a regulatory exception.
WHY THIS MATTERS
Today’s proposal complements former OIG actions establishing information blocking penalties for the other actors such as health information technology (IT) developers of...
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