CHIME: Dismantle Ban On National Patient ID In Labor-HHS Approps

The Patient ID Now Coalition will send a letter to House and Senate appropriators asking them to nix a longstanding rider when they pass the fiscal 2025 Labor-HHS Appropriations bill that prevents funding for a national patient identification standard. A similar ban has been included in every appropriations package since fiscal 1999, the group writes, and increases costs to patients who may have to receive duplicative health care services and poses security risks. The lack of a patient identification standard...