Summary
Attached here, please find a Wynne Health Group issue brief that provides an overview of federal health information technology (health IT) policy, beginning with the evolution of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Promoting Interoperability Programs, formerly the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs (EHR Incentive Programs).
Next, the brief expounds upon the Medicare and Medicaid Promoting Interoperability requirements delineated of clinicians in the Quality Payment Program (QPP) and for hospitals; the recently-promulgated interoperability and information blocking proposed regulations, including key payer- and provider-related provisions; and finally, we turn to key Congressional developments on the health IT front, including prospects for potential health IT-related legislation, as well as broader Congressional oversight of the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) health IT provisions.