Healthcare DIVE October 11, 2021
Part 1: Overview
A great deal has changed since the July 1st 21st Century Cures patient access deadline, but before we talk about what’s occurred and what’s to come, let’s start with a brief refresher on the Cures Act itself.
Patients and physicians alike shared numerous personal examples in several forums about frustrating experiences that included repeated medical tests and/or procedures to satisfy insurance requirements or simply to have access to the results. The Cures Act was signed in 2016 and included several provisions to improve patients’ access to their own medical data, addressed specifically by section 4003 pertaining to interoperability. The rules impacted members enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP or qualified health plans (QHPs) on the exchange.
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