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Proposed federal sticks and carrots to incentivize the health sector to implement stronger cybersecurity standards are already meeting opposition from some industry

The United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") has proposed new rulemaking (88 FR 78476) to revise the Medicare Advantage (Part C) ("MA") regulations for 2025.

EHRA, HIMSS and others cite regulatory variability and redundancy, as well as costs, as roadblocks to interoperable health information exchange, while ACR stresses investigatory protections for physicians.

On November 15, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule titled Contract Year 2025 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program,...

HHS is proposing expensive new disincentives to prevent information blocking. There are significant details to be aware of, especially around a list of enumerated exceptions – and HCOs must work quickly to understand them, data privacy experts say.

On October 30, 2023, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare &...

In coordination with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology...

While health care providers have been required to comply with the 21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Rule (the Rule) since April 5, 2021, as of yet there is no enforcement...

On August 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final rule for the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2024 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS)...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced its final rule (the Enforcement Rule) implementing the information blocking penalties...