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Relaxing Privacy Requirements? Department Of Health And Human Services Proposes Changes To HIPAA | Husch Blackwell LLP

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 10, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a proposed rule that would revise the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). In its news release, OCR noted that the changes “seeks to promote value-based health care by examining federal regulations that impede efforts among healthcare providers and health plans to better coordinate care for patients.” The proposed changes come on the heels of the recently delayed Information Blocking Rule, which seeks to prohibit interferences with access, exchange, or use of electronic health information (EHI). The key proposed changes are discussed below.

CMS announces proposed rule to improve electronic data exchange and streamline prior authorization | Bricker & Eckler LLP

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 11, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule designed to improve electronic health care data exchange and streamline the prior authorization process. The CMS fact sheet accompanying the proposed rule stated that its goal is “reducing overall payer and provider burden and improving patient access to health information.” The proposed rule includes five sets of proposals and five requests for information. The proposals include the following: Patient Access Application Programming Interface (API) – This proposal builds on the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule, which required certain payers to implement a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources-based Patient Access API. CMS would now require these payers to include information about patients’ pending and active prior authorization decisions in the API. These payers would also be required to maintain

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