The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Memorandum entitled, “Updates to the Condition of Participation (CoP) Requirements for Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) to Report Acute Respiratory Illnesses,” back in October 2024. This memorandum provided updates and clarifications to the Respiratory Reporting Requirements included in the FY 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (CMS-1808-F) Final Rule in the Federal Register (89 FR 68986).
The Memorandum provides guidance indicating that “Psychiatric Hospitals, Rehabilitation Hospitals, Psychiatric Hospital Distinct Part Units, and Rehabilitation Hospital Distinct Part Units will report once, annually, beginning in January, and only include the data for the previous week.”
The Memorandum also provides guidance on what the information collection will require:
- One-Day-a-Week Snapshot
- Staffed bed capacity and occupancy including adult and pediatric
- Hospitalizations prevalence by respiratory illness and bed type
- Weekly Total New Hospital Admissions
- Total new hospital admissions for adult and pediatric patients by age range, over a defined weekly period
Additional information regarding the Hospital Respiratory Reporting requirements are also available on the Hospital Respiratory Data web page of the Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) website. The CDC will also be making changes to the reporting protocol and training information based upon this modification in requirements.
Members are encouraged to closely review both the Memorandum from CMS and the information on the reporting requirements posted on the CDC website.
