Health IT Certification
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Thursday, August 13
CMS says it could not disburse the 1.88% APM incentive to certain clinicians who qualified based on 2024 performance because it lacks current Medicare…
Briefing
AI Governance
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Wednesday, August 12
CMS has finalized a rule barring federal Medicaid matching funds for specified gender-affirming procedures for beneficiaries under 18 and federal CHIP…
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Friday, August 7
Today’s useful movement is in interoperability standards, not federal rulemaking.
Privacy and Security
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Thursday, August 6
No fresh development cleared the evidence-and-action gate this morning; this is a genuine slow day, not a brief padded with yesterday’s leftovers.
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Wednesday, August 5
Two items cleared the evidence and action gate this morning.
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Friday, July 31
This is a slow morning, but not an empty one.
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF - Wednesday, July 15
CMS dropped the CY 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule on July 14, with public inspection publication set for July 16.
Briefing
CMS seeks comment on Exchange improper-payment and enrollee-experience data collections
CMS is giving the public until August 13, 2026, to comment on two Affordable Care Act marketplace information collections.
Health IT Certification
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Wednesday, July 1
Two real signals this morning; everything else in the Federal Register scan was either stale, off-portfolio, or the kind of standards-word false positive…
Privacy and Security
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Thursday, July 2
Slow morning, but not empty. The only item that earns real policy attention is HHS OCR’s June 30 Federal Register notice reorganizing the Office for Civil…
Privacy and Security
VA updates the privacy map for its patient medical records system
The Department of Veterans Affairs is updating the formal Privacy Act notice for "Patient Medical Records-VA," the system behind treatment, payment…
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Monday, June 29
The clean action item this morning is Medicare Advantage prior authorization.