The CMS Interoperability & Patient Access Proposed Rule
On March 4, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services released a proposed rule that is intended to move the health care ecosystem towards interoperability and to signal their commitment to the vision set out in the 21st Century Cures Act and Executive Order 13813. The proposed rule would improve access to and the quality of information that consumers in the U.S. need to make informed health care decisions (e.g., data about health care prices and outcomes . . .

