CMS announced new and enhanced initiatives designed to improve Medicaid program integrity through greater transparency and accountability, strengthened data, and innovative and robust analytic tools.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the agency’s first Data Element Library (DEL). The DEL is a new CMS database that supports the exchange of electronic health information.
CMS announced it is hosting the first-ever Blue Button® 2.0 Developer Conference. This event is being held in Washington, D.C. at the General Services Administration national headquarters on Monday, August 13, 2018.
CMS updated its QPP Look-Up Tool to allow clinicians to view 2018 MIPS eligibility and Alternative Payment Model Qualifying APM Participant data—in one place.
CMS released the first ever Medicaid and CHIP Scorecard, a central component of the Administration’s commitment to modernize the Medicaid and CHIP program through greater transparency and accountability for the program’s outcomes.
On April 24th, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the FY 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long Term Acute Care Hospital proposed rule.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced the agency’s new Data Driven Patient Care Strategy as part of the MyHealthEData initiative at the ninth annual Health Datapalooza conference in Washington, D.C.
The data submission period for the 2017 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) closed on April 3, 2018. CMS is currently in the process of reviewing all the data submitted. Preliminary Performance Feedback Data for MIPS is now available.
The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released the ONC Guide to Getting and Using your Health Records, a new online resource for individuals, patients, and caregivers.