HealthIT Answers December 15, 2025
There is a well-known Chinese Proverb that says “the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” In January 2024, CMS published the 0057 Final Rule. That was the best time for health plans to get serious about interoperability. Now, nearly two years since the rule’s publishing and with many health plans only just beginning to grapple with meeting the January 1, 2027 deadline, the second best time is now.
Why the urgency?
The CMS-0057 Final Rule isn’t simply a new set of APIs to stand up — it’s a multi-year transformation mandate that reshapes how data, workflows, and partnerships should function across a health plan. That’s exactly why CMS gave health...







