Health Information Compliance Alert
CMS Reveals New Patients Over Paperwork Update
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After months with little communication on the flagship initiative to reduce administrative burdens in healthcare, Medicare finally released a new Patients Over Paperwork newsletter. The latest issuance is chock full of details on what the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been doing to cut down providers’ paperwork, including improving telehealth services in rural medicine and promoting interoperability across its various proposals and rules while boosting technology and innovation throughout its initiatives. The release covers these hot topics: See the newsletter at www.cms.gov/files/document/november-2019-patients-over-paperwork-newsletter.
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