MedCity News August 19, 2021
As plans struggle to decide how to comply with a badly-worded portion of the final rule on interoperability, they should be thinking about the broader changes at work and whether their choices now prepare them for the world ahead.
How do you comply with a mandate that is not explained? That is a challenge payers face with only a few months to meet the current January 2022 deadline for the Payer to Payer Data Exchange, another part of the CMS/ONC Interoperability rule. CMS and ONC have not provided straightforward requirements, with partial references to this mandate badly scattered across the 900+ pages of regulation and lacking in vital details and much needed clarity.
Before examining the rule in detail, payers...