Medicare & Medicaid Programs; Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act; Interoperability & Patient Access For Medicare Advantage Organization & Medicaid Managed Care Plans, State Medicaid Agencies, CHIP Agencies & CHIP Managed Care Entities, Issuers Of Qualified Health Plans On The Federally-Facilitated Exchanges & Health Care Providers

On March 4, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a final rule intended to move the health care ecosystem in the direction of interoperability, and to signal our commitment to the vision set out in the 21st Century Cures Act and Executive Order 13813 to improve the quality and accessibility of information that Americans need to make informed health care decisions, including data about health care prices and outcomes, while minimizing reporting burdens on affected health care providers and payers . . .