Meetings This Week

Tuesday

Genomics (1:00ET) - Guest speaker Robert C. Green, M.D., MPH, Professor of Medicine (Genetics) at Harvard Medical School and a physician-scientist who directs the G2P Research Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Broad Institute and Ariadne Labs.

Payment Models (3:00ET) - Guest Speaker Yubin Park, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Apollo Medical Holdings, will present and lead a discussion on risk adjustment reform.

Wednesday

Telehealth (3:00ET) - Telehealth news and industry updates.

Thursday

Claims (11:00ET) - working on white paper: “Lessons learned on 5010 and ICD10 – what can the industry do better in 8020 based, in part, on what we learned”

Health Equity (3:00ET) - Finalize Terminology paper

Friday

No Surprises Act (1:00ET) - Continue work on the resource document.

Next Week

Wednesday

Acknowledgments (3:00ET) - Working on the 999 Issue Brief

Thursday

Property & Casualty (2:00ET) - State regulatory update



Learn more about all the WEDI Workgroups here and contact Sam Holvey if you would like to participate!

Upcoming Events

Jan. 31st - WEDI Virtual Spotlight: How Adopting a Zero-Trust Identity Strategy Can Help Protect Patient Data Free for Members

Feb. 1st - Improving Prior Authorization Processes & the CMS Proposed Rule: Insights for Preparing Successful Implementations. A WEDI Virtual Spotlight Presented by MCG Health Free

Feb. 15th & 16th - WEDI 3rd Annual Health Equity Spotlight; Building Upon Data and Innovation to Drive Equity

May 22-25 - WEDI Spring Conference Save the dates for the 100% virtual event!

Federal Update

Curated for you by WEDI staff



-WEDI Testifies Before NCVHS on X12 and CAQH CORE Proposals.

-CMS to Host Webinar on Interoperability and Prior Authorization Proposed Rule.

-CMS Announces Increase in 2023 in Organizations and Beneficiaries Benefiting from Coordinated Care in Accountable Care Relationships.

-NIST to Host Cybersecurity Framework Workshop.

-HC3 Issues Threat Brief on Royal & BlackCat Ransomware.

-Deadline Approaching to Submit Hospital CY 2022 PI Program Data.

-Participate in CMS Field Testing of Cost Measures Now through Feb. 14.

-Early in the Pandemic, Insurer Payments for Telehealth and In-Person Claims Similar.

-Study Suggests Physicians in Alternative Practice Models More Likely to Use HIEs.