On February 11th, blockchain advocates, digital health enthusiasts, and patients received positive news from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”) regarding patient data sharing. These rules, taken together, seek to make data more liquid, which can promote patient access, continuity of care, research, collaboration across the industry and several other activities that previously faced challenges within a health care system built on data silos.
First, CMS ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") expects Qualified Health Plan ("QHP") Issuers to be more familiar with Marketplace requirements and better reflect those standards in Issuers' written policies and procedures, officials stated at the recent 2015 QHP Certification Conference held at CMS Headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland.
Twenty-three Issuers across fifteen Federally-facilitated Marketplace ("FFM") States were audited for compliance with Federal QHP requirements during 2014. The audits focused largely on QHP's policies and procedures relating to ...
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