Things may never go back exactly to the way they were prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, but there are definitive steps you can take to ensure your practice, your staff, and your patients return as quickly as possible to a state of robust productivity and care opportunities.
Price Transparency is coming. January 1, 2021 to be exact.
Unless it changes.
Either way, are we ready?
Are YOU ready?
New Requirements
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) final Interoperability and Patient Access Rule creates a new Condition of Participation (CoP) that requires hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, and Critical Access Hospitals to share electronic Admission, Discharge, Transfer (ADT) event notifications with other providers and systems so that providers including post-acutes have at their disposal the most up-to-date and accurate information about their patients as it relates to admissions and ED visits. The compliance requirement goes into effect May 1, 2021 and CMS will begin enforcement of the requirements on July 1, 2021.
It’s 2020, and despite all the technology available to us these days, healthcare still manages to find a way to lag behind. One of the components that shines though is the EHR patient portal. Portals are must-haves for most organizations and providers, but they are much more than that as well.
