Medical Economics January 3, 2024
Jeffrey Bendix

In response to proposed rule it calls for better education about information blocking, eliminating penalties that discourage value-based care participation

Many of the government’s proposed methods for preventing information blocking among health care providers are unnecessary and would harm patients, according to the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS).

In its written response to the proposed rule containing the penalties for engaging in information blocking, NAACOS called the penalties “punitive” and said they would diminish ACOS’ efforts to improve patient care.

The responses were included in a January 2 letter the association sent to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

The proposed rule, part of...

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