Promoting Interoperability

The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) declared readiness for all four Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) public health reporting use cases, effective Jan. 1, 2022.

Health care system and independent hospital partners working toward full reimbursement for Medicare services need to actively engage with all four of these use cases:

• Syndromic Surveillance Reporting
• Electronic case reporting (eCR)
• Electronic laboratory reporting (ELR)
• Immunization reporting (MIIC)

MDH has contracted with Koble Minnesota, a State-certified Health Information Organization (HIO), to help support interoperability implementation between MDH programs and the external partners that have the information needed to perform public health work. The NSSP use case in particular requires submission through the HIO; however; other use cases may also be sent via Koble to increase value and reduce administrative burden for public health reporting.

Additional information, including the Koble participation agreement and contact information, can be found at Koble Minnesota.

Partners should use the MDH Interoperability Checklist (PDF) to document their intent to engage in submission of data; email this form to health.interoperability@state.mn.us when completed.

MDH provides attestation letters to healthcare organizations who are engaged in interoperable data exchange per the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Promoting Interoperability (PI) and Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) guidelines upon their request. To request attestation letters or letters of active engagement please complete the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) Interoperability Attestation Request Form.

MDH will review the CMS PI and MIPS requirements that your healthcare organization has met and will provide an attestation letter if requirements have been met.