Healthcare data is an important resource patients can use to improve health outcomes for themselves and as part of research groups. This fact is driving the need for easier ways patients and providers ...

The CMS is once again tackling prior authorization in its new rule proposed Tuesday. Prior authorization, a process in which a physician must get the green light from an insurer for medication or ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is flipping the switch on a service that lets Medicare beneficiaries more easily download and share their health data. CMS Records Management The Centers ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Administrator Seema Verma urged health insurance companies to follow the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' lead and make claims data more readily available. "We're at the ...

Under a final rule released today, impacted payers will be required to send prior authorization decisions within 72 hours for urgent requests and seven calendar days for standard requests. The Centers ...