Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Thursday, October 15
CMS is putting precise numbers behind Marketplace cleanup—189,000 records and a projected $1.5 billion in savings—but not the error and reinstatement…
Interoperability
Interoperability analysis covering health data exchange, APIs, FHIR, TEFCA, information blocking, EHR certification, standards adoption, and payer-provider connectivity. Focused on making health information usable, secure, and available when needed to support patient care, reduce burden, and improve system performance.
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Wednesday, October 14
CMS is moving its rural-health program from award ceremony to implementation, and that shift exposes the real policy test: whether new equipment…
Physician Payment
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Friday, October 9
CMS has turned the end of the week into an operations drill: a bad email address can shut off Medicare eligibility transactions, small practices face a…
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Wednesday, October 7
Washington’s live pressure point is data that can actually be used.
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Monday, October 5
CMS fixed a payment-recovery trap for qualifying APM participants.
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Thursday, October 1
CMS is testing an alternative Part B drug-inflation-rebate calculation using international net-price benchmarks.
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Tuesday, September 29
ONC has a better cyber checklist for smaller practices—but it is not a compliance shield.
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Monday, September 28
The federal shelf is quiet this morning, but one standards lever expires tonight.
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Thursday, September 24
ONC owns today’s clock. Its USCDI Version 8 input window closes Monday, September 28, at 11:59 p.m.
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Wednesday, September 23
The live stakes are a five-day standards window, an immediate Marketplace fraud rule, and a chance to test whether electronic prior authorization is truly…
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Monday, September 21
Three federal policy windows are now on the clock: Medicaid drug pricing, the next generation of interoperability data, and standards for medical imaging…
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Friday, September 18
CMS is scaling technology-supported chronic care, and the physician-integration questions are no longer theoretical.