tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 29

MEDICARE: CMS Experiments With Transferring Claims Data To PHRs

My.Medicare.gov pages not 'true' PHRs, agency says.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is spending $500,000 on testing new online consumer-oriented tools.The new project will test "the feasibility of integrating Medicare claims history information with other Internet-based tools," which would allow Medicare beneficiaries to track their health care services, CMS announced on July 21. The agency awarded six-month contracts to ViPS and Capstone Government Solutions, spending around $500,000 on the project.The two companies will test transferring Medicare claims data into personal health records (PHRs). The project will also "evaluate how...

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