Hospital Worker Vaccination Rate Data Withheld Until October

The Biden administration says it will hold back data on how many hospital workers are vaccinated until October 2022.

Meanwhile, patients across the country continue to delay medical care over fear of catching the virus in hospitals.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has three months-worth of data on vaccination rates that it started requiring hospitals to submit Oct. 1, 2021. “CMS will not be updating this measure with quarterly refreshes until the agency has a full year of data in October 2022,” a CMS spokesperson said in an email.

The agency said it takes time to collect the ...