0938-AT79 202004 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 0938 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS 0900 Department of Health and Human Services HHS Interoperability and Patient Access For MA Organization and Medicaid Managed Care Plans, State Medicaid Agencies, CHIP Agencies and Managed Care Entities, and Qualified Health Plans (CMS-9115)

This final rule is intended to move the health care ecosystem in the direction of interoperability, and to signal our commitment to the vision set out in the 21st Century Cures Act and Executive Order 13813 to improve the quality and accessibility of information that Americans need to make informed health care decisions, including data about health care prices and outcomes, while minimizing reporting burdens on affected health care providers and payers.

]]> Economically Significant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Completed Actions Yes No Regulatory 42 CFR 406 42 CFR 407 42 CFR 422 42 CFR 423 ... 42 U.S.C. 1395 42 U.S.C. 1302 Pub. L. 111-148 Statutory Final 03/04/2022 MMA sec. 902 requires Medicare final rules to publish within 3 years of a proposed or interim final rule. Per the CMS notice published December 30, 2004 (69 FR 78442), except for certain Medicare payment regulations and certain other statutorily-mandated regulations, we schedule all Medicare final regulations for publication within the 3-year standardized time limit in the current Unified Agenda. We do not intend to delay publishing a Medicare final regulation for 3 years if we are able to publish it sooner. Yes NPRM 03/04/2019 84 FR 7610 NPRM Comment Period Extended 04/23/2019 84 FR 16834 NPRM Comment Period End 05/03/2019 NPRM Comment Period Extended End 06/03/2019 Final Action 05/01/2020 85 FR 25510 Final Action Effective 06/30/2020 No Federal State No No No Alexandra Mugge Director & Chief Health Informatics Officer, Health Informatics and Interoperability Group 0938 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS 410 786-4457 alexandra.mugge@cms.hhs.gov Office of Healthcare Experience and Interoperability, MS: C5-02-00, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore MD 21244