Tag: RFI
On February 12, 2020, Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), released a Request for Information (RFI) to seek public comments regarding rural maternal and infant health care. The CMS Office of Minority Hea...
On Friday, November 15, the House Ways and Means Committee released a request for information (RFI) on healthcare outcomes of rural communities to help inform future bipartisan legislation to improve care delivery in underserved and rural communities...
On Friday, November 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation released an informal Request for Information (RFI) for feedback on the potential Oncology Care First (OCF) Model. In response to...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) held a public listening session on Monday, November 4, 2019, to discuss a new oncology payment model that builds on the current Oncol...
As a follow-up to the recently released Presidential Executive Order on Medicare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released two requests for information (RFIs) on the future of Medicare program integrity. For CMS, the focus of Med...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is hosting a webinar to discuss the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Value Pathways (MVPs) proposed in a CMS Request for Information (RFI) appearing in the 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Sc...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Rural Health Task Force are seeking information about access to health care in rural communities. Responses are to be emailed to hrsacommen...
On June 6, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking new ideas from the public on how to continue the progress of the Patients over Paperwork initiative. Launched in 2017, the Patients over Pa...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is continuing to seek public input to further refine the design parameters of the Direct Contracting Geographic Population-Based Payment (PBP) Model Option. Responses to the request for information (RF...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a request for comments on the information collected for the Medicare Advantage Qualifying Payment Arrangement Incentive Demonstration (MAQI). CMS will be collecting and reviewing informati...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of the Treasury issued a Request for Information (RFI) asking for more ideas on innovative programs and waiver concepts that states could consider in developing a State Relief ...
On March 5, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a listening session on the Interoperability and Patient Access Proposed Rule. This proposed rule outlines opportunities to make patient data more useful and transferable...
The Department of Health and Human Services released a request for information (RFI) about how Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules could be modified to further the Secretary’s goal of promoting coordinated care. The ...
The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) released a request for information (RFI) regarding provider and plan approaches to improve care for Medicare beneficiaries with social risk factors. The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care T...
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking recommendations for private sector leaders to participate in the “Deputy Secretary’s Innovation and Investment Summit” (DSIIS) working group, a yearlong collaboration between inn...
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a request for information (RFI) seeking stakeholder input on potential new safe harbors to the Anti-Kickback Statute and exceptions to the beneficiary inducement prohibition in the Civil Monetary Penalt...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released a request for information (RFI) on criteria to measure the performance of certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT), as required by the 21st Century Cures Act. Feedback receive...
In September 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Request for Information (RFI), to collect ideas on a new direction for the Innovation Center to promote patient-centered care and test market driven reforms. The Innov...
On April 23, 2018, the Innovation Center released a Request for Information (RFI) on direct provider contracting (DPC) between payers and primary care or multi-specialty groups to inform potential testing of a DPC model within the Med...
On April 23, 2018, CMS released comments submitted by stakeholders in response to the CMS Innovation Center’s New Direction Request for Information (RFI). Last fall, CMS released the RFI to collect ideas on a new direction for the agency’s Innova...
As part of its Patients Over Paperwork initiative, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released an analysis of comments submitted in response to nine Requests for Information (RFIs) included in the Medicare FFS payment rules. CMS r...
On September 20, 2017, the CMS Innovation Center issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking feedback on the future direction for the Center’s efforts. The RFI is available here. Congress created the Innovation Center in 2010 to test n...
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On Monday, February 27, 2017, CMS released a Request for Information (RFI) to collect stakeholder input on the development of pediatric Alternative Payment Models (APMS). The focus of this RFI is on the improvement of quality and reduction in cost fo...
On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) sent the highly anticipated Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) final rule to the Office of Management a...
On May 11, 2016 the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Models (APMs) in Medicare Fee-for-Service (CMS-5517-P) was published in the Federal Register and is available here. This Proposes Rule implements the Medicare Ac...
On April 7, 2016 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released a Request for Information (RFI) Regarding Assessing Interoperability for MACRA. Comments are due on June 3, 2016. CMS uses the RFI process to help inform the d...
CMS and ONC Release RFI on Quality Reporting. Download the pdf. View Public Comments....
On September 28, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released Request for Information (RFI) on the Implementation of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), Promotion of Alternative Payment Models (APMs) and Incentive...
