HHS Finalizes Rule Establishing Disincentives for Health Care Providers That Have Committed Information Blocking

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today released a final rule that establishes disincentives for health care providers that have committed information blocking.

HHS has established the following disincentives for health care providers found by the HHS Office of Inspector General to have committed information blocking and referred by OIG to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services : Under the Promoting Interoperability performance category of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System , a MIPS eligible clinician who has committed information blocking will not be a meaningful EHR user during the calendar year of the performance period in which OIG refers its determination to CMS. If the MIPS eligible clinician is not a meaningful EHR user, then they will receive a zero score in the MIPS Promoting Interoperability performance category.

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