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WEDI Weekly 2025
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Read MoreWEDI Federal Update 12.22.25
CMS Releases Price Transparency Proposed Rule with 60-Day Comment Period. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in partnership with the Department of Labor and the Department of the Treasury, have published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) updating the 2020 Transparency in Coverage regulations. The proposals aim to improve price transparency by reducing…
Read MoreWEDI Blog: WEDI Survey Finds Payers and Providers Continue Facing Challenges to Meet CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Regulatory Deadline
WEDI Surveys Industry Readiness for CMS-0057-F: What Is the Current State? Nancy Spector, MSC, WEDI Senior Director, Federal Affairs In February 2024 when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Final Rule, 0057-F as we now know it, was published, the compliance deadline of January 1, 2027, seemed…
Read MoreWEDI Federal Update 12.15.25
WEDI Presents at CMS Listening Session on FHIR Prior Authorization Standard. WEDI presented at a hearing conducted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) National Standards Group on the issue of the use of a FHIR® Standard for conducting prior authorization transactions. WEDI was invited to present along with the Designated Standards Maintenance…
Read MoreWEDI Interoperability Survey Update 2025
Recognized and trusted as a formal advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), WEDI is the leading authority on the use of health IT to efficiently improve health information exchange, enhance care quality, and reduce costs. With a focus on advancing standards for electronic administrative transactions, promoting data privacy and security, WEDI…
Read MoreWEDI Response to December 2025 CMS Listening Session
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Read MoreEpisode 229: Bridging Payers and Providers: Policy, Innovation, and Collaboration for the Future of Care
Knowledge Center Episode 229: Bridging Payers and Providers: Policy, Innovation, and Collaboration for the Future of Care December 15, 2025 This episode, from our November National Conference, explores one of health care’s most persistent challenges: how hospitals and health plans can move from operating at cross-purposes to truly rowing in the same direction. Our guests…
Read MoreWEDI Announces Winners of the Organization’s 2025 Awards
WEDI Announces Winners of the Organization’s 2025 Awards CMS’ Michael Cimmino Awarded Top Honor WASHINGTON, D.C., December 11, 2025 — The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is pleased to announce the winners of Its Annual Awards Recognizing Excellence in Health IT. The organization’s annual awards were presented earlier this week during the 2025 WEDI…
Read MoreWEDI Federal Update 12.8.2025
WEDI Submits Comments for OCR’s HIPAA Security Rule Video, Submissions Due Today. WEDI submitted comments on the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) request for input on topics and questions to be addressed in a video it is producing on requirements for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act…
Read MoreWEDI Submission for OCR HIPAA Security Rule sent to Director Stannard
December 8, 2025 Paula Stannard, JD Director Office for Civil Rights Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20201 Submitted electronically via OCRPresents@hhs.gov Dear Director Stannard: The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is submitting recommendations for topics to address for the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) upcoming video reviewing…
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