CMS To Help Insurers Comply With Data-Sharing Rules
CMS is collaborating with an anonymous health care provider and a health IT consultant to develop a strategy that would help some insurers comply with federal requirements for sharing electronic data with physicians. The new collaboration was driven by Stanley Nachimson, a Baltimore area health IT consultant, who contacted CMS in May on behalf of an unnamed health care provider client that was not receiving all the information from a certain health insurer as required under regulations that took effect in July 2012 and January 2013.
- "Insurers Pressed To Send Patient Coverage Information Providers" (Conn, Modern Healthcare, 8/8).