CMS published its FY 2025 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule on August 1, 2024. Under this final rule, CMS is implementing several changes to its Hospital ...

CMS made a series of changes that will affect the use of health IT in its latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program proposal released July 12. Changes are aimed at getting ...

The WEDI baseline survey shows many providers and payers have yet to start implementing the requirements of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Advancing Interoperability and Improving ...

In the past few months, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has announced new and renewed initiatives to promote health information sharing and interoperability among health ...

However, HHS said that in response to commentators' inquiries, the OIG does not intend to use its authority to investigate information blocking for potential noncompliance with CMS requirements, ...

CMS has finalized a 2.6% payment increase for inpatient services, boosted DSH payments, established new interoperability rules for prior authorization, and confirmed the launch of a controversial ...

CMS identifies modernizing technology innovation as a core RHT strategic goal, emphasizing solutions that improve care delivery efficiency, data security, data sharing, cybersecurity, and access to ...