Hospitals will be required to track and report Covid-19 vaccination status for their health-care personnel to comply with a rule from the Biden administration.
The requirement, contained in a wide-ranging hospital payment rule (RIN 0938-AU44, 0938-AU56), is an effort to “support public health tracking and provide patients, beneficiaries, and their caregivers important information to support informed decision making,” according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Hospitals are required to report certain quality measures to the CMS or they risk losing funding. The rule, finalized Aug. 2, asks hospitals to report data each quarter to the Centers ...
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