By Hannah Nelson
January 17, 2024 – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F).
The rule outlines requirements to streamline health information exchange (HIE) and prior…
Decades.
That’s how long healthcare organizations have been surveying patients to understand their experiences and how they match up with care delivery. The drive to measure patient experience (PX) started in the 1990s, but patient…
CMS’s new national payment rate and unique reimbursement codes signal a transformative shift in radiotherapy reimbursement, removing barriers to the clinical adoption of RefleXion’s SCINTIX biology-guided radiotherapy. The breakthrough approach, utilizing emissions from cancer…
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More organizations are releasing their comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Office of the Inspector General on the proposed federal rule to establish…
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Tanya Sanderson, RN, BSN, MBA, MHA, CLNC, Sr. Director of Revenue Integrity at XSOLIS
Of the many complexities within the healthcare industry, medical necessity determinations can be the most challenging – and pose one of…
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AHA challenges CMS and ONC’s proposed disincentives under the 21st Century Cures Act, fearing they could severely jeopardize small and rural hospitals’ financial stability. The association highlights the apparent underestimation of penalties’ true financial…
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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…
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Hospitals seriously improved their compliance with price transparency regulations in 2023, according to a report released Thursday by Turquoise Health.
CMS began enforcing its price transparency rule on the first day of 2021. The law…
The Medical Group Management Association this week asked for greater transparency from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in its proposed information blocking rules – and outlined several key recommendations to…
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We previously shared ONC’s big QHIN announcement which shared the names of five officially designated QHINs as part of TEFCA:
No doubt, the timing of this announcement was planned to coincide with the ONC Annual…
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