CMS agency officials say that the new MACRA program will offer healthcare providers greater simplicity and flexibility but the proposed MACRA requirements have physicians and healthcare organizations concerned about a breach in patient privacy.  The concern is that providing “quality information” via an EHR or registry on all patients, regardless of payer, oversteps patient privacy laws.  Many Providers and Healthcare organizations voiced their (primarily critical) opinions by submitting nearly 4,000 comments to CMS prior to the June 27th deadline.

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Published by:  Modern Healthcare:  Virgil Dickson June 28, 2016