More Stakeholders Weigh in on Information-Blocking Disincentives

Healthcare Innovation January 11, 2024
David Raths

Civitas: Disincentives’ structure suggests that HHS regards most information blocking as isolated incidents rather than deliberate strategy

Last week, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) suggested that federal regulators use corrective action plans and education to remedy information-blocking allegations instead of significant financial penalties. Now other stakeholders, including the EHR Association and Civitas Networks for Health, have weighed in with their concerns and suggestions for improving the final rule.

Information blocking 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.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’...

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