Healthcare IT News January 5, 2024
The American Hospital Association questions the agency’s calculations, and said the proposed information blocking penalties could threaten the financial viability of many small and rural hospitals.
The American Hospital Association had four areas of comments for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on the proposed federal rule to establish disincentives for providers found to have committed information blocking under the 21st Century Cures Act.
WHY IT MATTERS
According to AHA’s comments in Tuesday’s letter, “it appears that CMS and ONC underestimated the real financial impact of a 75% decrease in yearly market basket updates for [Inpatient Prospective Payment System] hospitals and a one percentage point reduction in the reimbursement”...
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