The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, announced the availability of an estimated $103 million in American Rescue Plan funding over a three-year period to reduce burnout and promote mental health among the health workforce.
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By Michael Wittie & Jeff Smith – In section 3009A of the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016, Congress created the “Electronic Health Record Reporting Program” and required health IT developers participating in the ONC Health IT Certification Program to publicly report certain information about their certified health IT products consistent with a new “condition of maintaining certification.”
NAACOS Statement on CMS’s Proposed 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services took the appropriate step by proposing to roll back changes that the agency finalized last year in how accountable care organizations (ACOs) report and are measured on quality.
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including a clinical decision support workshop, USCDI version 2 is now available, and helping to define Health Interoperability Outcomes for the next decade.
By Micky Tripathi & Mariann Yeager – Timeline announced for TEFCA. The 21st Century Cures Act, signed by President Obama in 2016, calls on ONC to “develop or support a trusted exchange framework, including a common agreement among health information networks nationally.”
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.
By Aaron Miri MBA & Denise Webb MA – As part of HHS’s response to President Biden’s Executive Order on Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats, ONC’s HITAC recently held an expert panel hearing to understand…
The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury, and the Office of Personnel Management, issued “Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part I,” an interim final rule that will restrict excessive out of pocket costs to consumers from surprise billing and balance billing.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule that accelerates the shift from paying for home health services based on volume, to a system that incentivizes value and quality.