Get Ready for These Medicare Overhauls

Article Overview

This article covers CMS’s announced overhaul of Medicare-linked health IT and reporting initiatives, including interoperability-focused changes to EHR incentives, patient access to electronic health data, information blocking reporting, CEHRT update expectations, discharge information delivery, duplicate testing reduction, and documentation-related policy modernization. It is relevant to practices, hospitals, eligible clinicians, and coding or compliance professionals tracking Medicare policy and EHR requirements. The piece is a high-level summary of the agency’s announcement and the broad categories of guidance described in the accompanying fact sheet.