From KFF News Network – Their latest podcast, ‘An Arm And A Leg’, This week, News has been coming out of Washington, D.C., since the start of the second Donald Trump administration like water out of a fire hose. It can feel impossible to stay on top of all the changes.
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The 2025 Quality Payment Program Exception applications are available now through December 31, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET. There are 2 types of exception applications that allow users to indicate the reason they’re unable to report data for one or more Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance categories.
The Department of Health and Human Services is making stakeholders aware of the availability of the International Da Vinci Project Report. The notice provides the location and information which includes test results from the use of the HL7 FHIR standards approved for use under the HIPAA exceptions process at Title 45 CFR § 162.940.
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, Members of Congress are back in Washington, and Republicans are facing hard decisions on how to reduce Medicaid spending, even as new polling shows that would be unpopular among their voters.
Please Note: CMS is in the process of updating all related resources (i.e. guides, factsheets, webpages, etc.), including the Explore Measures and Activities tool, to indicate these improvement activities have been suspended for PY 2025.
HHS announced reorganization plans that will combines personnel cuts, centralization of functions, and consolidation of their divisions.
By Jim Tate – Now, for the first time in 20 years, a Certification tool is down and not available for live testing by any of the ONC-Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ONC-ATCB).
By Mary Griskewicz – At first glance, the latest Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Request for Information is short, coming in at 3 pages. But don’t be fooled. It is asking some big, open-ended questions that could shape the future of the Medicare program for years to come.
These proposed rules issued by CMS have all been published to the Federal Register and are all in their 60 day comment periods.