The Need for Linguistically-Appropriate Services On April 20, 2022, CMS released an action plan that establishes health equity as a ‘first pillar’ of its strategic vision …

Defacto Health has been reviewing health insurers’ Provider Directory APIs in terms of availability, issues, and use cases for almost a year now. This post …

When CMS issued its requirement for payers to publish Provider Directory APIs, it contemplated use cases such as in-network provider search and health plan shopping. …

In our previous post, we reviewed aggregate statistics on payers publishing provider directory APIs in the first six months of enforcement of the CMS Final …

The CMS Final Rule on Interoperability and Patient Access requires payers to publish provider directory APIs and has been enforceable since July 1, 2021. CMS …

With the convergence of payer and provider interoperability, there is growing interest in how data sourced directly from EHRs could support provider search and patient …