CMS Weighs Ending Weekly COVID Data Reporting for LTC Facilities
In a client alert, Bond Schoeneck & King reports that CMS is reportedly considering sunsetting pandemic-era requirements that long-term care facilities report COVID-19 and other respiratory illness data weekly to the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network. The requirement currently applies to nursing homes and other CMS-regulated long-term care providers. No formal rule or timeline has yet been issued, and the firm characterizes the change as reported rather than confirmed. Nursing facilities have tracked and submitted this surveillance data throughout the pandemic as a condition of participation compliance matter.
Nursing facilities and other long-term care providers need to monitor for formal CMS guidance, since ending the mandate would remove a recurring compliance and reporting burden tied to conditions of participation.
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