The Biden administration finalized penalties for health IT companies found blocking the electronic flow of health information, freeing regulators to start investigating the backlog of information blocking complaints.
The HHS Office of Inspector General final rule enacts statutory penalties created by the 21st Century Cures Act, including fines of up to $1 million per information blocking violation.
Regulators have yet to codify information blocking penalties for providers, a separate rule that’s been held up amid enforcement complexity and is now expected to be published this fall, Healthcare Dive reports. Read more.
