Interoperability Insights: Compliance, Implementing CMS’ ‘Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule’
Register for the Thursday, September 3rd, Interoperability Insights: State Medicaid Director’s Letter: Compliance, Implementing CMS’ ‘Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule’, hosted at the State HIT Connect Virtual Mini-Series Portal!
3.00 – 4.00 PM EDT | Thursday, September 3rd,
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Presentation Title: Interoperability Insights: State Medicaid Director’s Letter: Compliance, Implementing CMS’ ‘Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule’
HITC Editor
Presenters:
Ryan Howells, Principal, Leavitt Partners
Thomas Novak, Medicaid Interoperability Lead, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
Denise St. Clair, Health Informatics and Interoperability Group (HIIG), Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics (OBRHI), CMS
Presentation Overview
The August 14th, 2020 State Medicaid Director’s Letter describes how state Medicaid agencies, Medicaid managed care plans, CHIP agencies, and CHIP managed care entities should implement the final rule in a manner consistent with the Interoperability Rule as part of the ’21st Century Cures Act’.
Join representatives from ONC, CMS who will discuss how state Medicaid agencies, Medicaid managed care plans, CHIP agencies, CHIP managed care entities should implement this final rule in a manner consistent with existing guidance. State presenters will discuss existing research, strategic planning undertaken to meet with compliance deadlines (as below).
- Implement and maintain a standards-based Patient Access API, Compliance Deadline: January 1, 2021
- Payer-to-Payer Data Exchange – Coordinate care between payers by exchanging, at a minimum, the information contained in the USCDI (the United States Core Data for Interoperability). Compliance deadline: January 1, 2021
- Make standardized information about provider networks available via a FHIR based Provider Directory API. Compliance deadline: January 1, 2021
- Improving the Dual-Eligible Experience. Compliance deadline: April 1, 2022
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