ACP Subspecialty Joint Letter to CMS Regarding Patient Access Rule Timelines

Joint letter to CMS urging support for physicians and their teams during this Public Health Emergency by delaying compliance with implementation timelines and offering hardship exceptions for upcoming regulatory deadlines in the Patient Access final regulations.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; CMS; Patient Access Final Rule; regulatory relief; Coronavirus Disease; COVID-19; subspecialty societies; interoperability; public health emergency; compliance; implementation; hardship exceptions; Application Programming Interfaces; APIs; information blocking; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; HHS; Office of Management and Budget; OMB; interim final rule; IFR; Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; ONC; electronic health record; EHR; financial hardship; flexibilities; deadlines.

Tue, 10/27/2020 - 11:22 AM EDT

Wed, 10/28/2020 - 11:42 AM EDT

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