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As part of CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) Administer Seema Verma’s HIMSS19 speech on Feb. 12, she announced a new initiative that will enable MSSP ACOs to retrieve claims data for their beneficiaries.
During Verma’s speech, in which she broadly implored the private sector to follow the government’s lead on making health data more accessible, she said, “We are launching a project that uses the FHIR Bulk Spec to share Medicare claims data with ACOs [accountable care organizations]. And for those of you non-techies, this means we are sharing claims data for ACO participants in a bulk format. And I am pretty sure we are one of the first to use this!”