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Welcome to Member Consent ServiceWhen you want someone (a spouse, a nurse, a caregiver, parents, lawyers, and so on) to access your medical data from a specific health plan to act on your behalf for eligibility purposes, you need to sign and provide your consent to your authorized representatives/applications for this particular health plan. Submitting and obtaining consents have always been manual and laborious processes that usually require exerts from both sides since the health plans get consents from their members (patients) in a paper form and keep this information. Also, as part of the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule (CMS-9115-F), the sensitive nature of medical data imposes additional regulatory requirements to access your, as member's, data through an application to prevent data breaches, unauthorized access to ensure complete security. To meet the CMS Interoperability mandate requirements, anytime you and other members access their data through an application, you are required to provide your consent stating that this particular application can access your medical data from this particular health plan. And though this can also be accomplished electronically, to this day, not all health plans can share consent information with their members. To smooth the workflow and digitize the whole process, Edifecs offers the Member Consent service (MCS). The Member Consent service is a solution that offers visibility of the consents issued by you and/or other members to the health plans and your authorized representatives and allows you, as a health plan member, to manage your consents given to any entity (authorized representatives, applications, and organizations) and to monitor the entities that have access to your health plan details through the MCS user interface. With the Member Consent service, you, as a health plan member, can:
Before you begin working with the Member Consent service, follow the steps here. |
