More than 400 stakeholders responded to the federal government’s request for ideas to reduce the administrative burden associated with serving publicly insured patients.
The request was disseminated via a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services request for information that was part of the agency’s “Patients over Paperwork” initiative. Among the groups that responded were the American Hospital Association, The American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the Critical Access Hospital Coalition, the Coalition of Long-Term Acute-Care Hospitals, the National Rural Association of Rural Health Clinics, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Hospital Association, and others.
Among the suggestions they offered were reconsideration of quality metrics, changes in the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS), the inclusion of social determinants of health in quality metrics, changes in star rating systems, greater efficiency in prior authorization processes, changes in interoperability requirements, and others.
Learn more about who submitted comments in response to this RFI and what they proposed in their comments in the Healthcare Dive article “CMS says it wants to cut paperwork. Providers have ideas.”