CMS / Regulation

History of CMS In the late 1900s, a large number of psychiatric hospitals were being shut down through a nationwide process of deinstitutionalization. However, with the hospitals shut down, the residents needed somewhere to go. This began the steady increase of patients and residents in nursing homes. And with this increase came the need for […]

CMS on Monday released proposed rules that require many types of facilities and insurers to provide electronic health data in a standard format by 2020. In two long-anticipated rules, the CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology proposed requiring healthcare providers and insurers to implement open data-sharing technology to ensure […]