Many payers, providers unprepared for interoperability and prior authorization rule, WEDI finds Starting Jan. 1, 2026, payers must send prior authorization decisions within 7 days and expedited ...

CMS’s 2026 interoperability rule is driving payers like EviCore, WellMed, and technology partners such as Availity to implement faster, fully electronic prior authorization processes. Updated portals, ...

Healthcare and technology groups want Medicare Advantage plans included in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed rule to expand access to health information and improve the prior ...

The AHA provided comments June 15 to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on its proposed rule establishing ...

The proposed rule could amplify the meaningful progress made by healthcare technology innovators and provide a more comprehensive framework.

In the push toward a more seamless, digitally enabled future, it’s important we understand exactly how this rush to ...

The Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability rule, or HTI-2, doesn’t feature a number of provisions included in the ...

Soon after the announcement on Thursday, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT immediately put its support behind the CMS proposed rule, with ONC chief Don Rucker, MD, noting that ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC), has released a ...

Hospitals and health systems that use Epic are more in favor of HHS’ proposed information blocking rule than any other organizations that use other vendors, according to a Reaction Data report. For ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC), has released a ...