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"GOOD NEWS: Earlier this year the requirement for US hospitals to report key COVID data to the federal government ended.

1000s of activists submitted comments to CMS, & now hospitals will be required to report key COVID, flu, & RSV data again outside of public health emergencies.

Advocacy works!"

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  "Hospital and CAH Respiratory Infection Data Reporting
  CMS is renewing and revising the hospital and critical access hospital (CAH)
  Conditions of Participation (CoPs) data reporting requirements for data related to respiratory infections. Sustained data collection and reporting of respiratory illnesses outside of emergencies will help ensure that hospitals and CAHs have appropriate insight related to evolving infection control needs. Specifically, CMS is requiring that, beginning on November 1, hospitals and CAHs electronically report information about COVID-19, influenza, and RSV on a schedule specified by the Secretary.
  CMS is also requiring that, in the event of a declared PHE for an acute respiratory illness, the Secretary may require reporting of additional categories, such as: facility structure and infrastructure operational status; hospital/ED diversion status; staffing and staffing shortages; supply inventory shortages; and relevant medical countermeasures and therapeutics."

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  "Medicare and Medicaid Programs and the Children's Health Insurance Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2025 Rates; Quality Programs Requirements; and Other Policy"

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  "Axios:
  
  Hospitals starting this week will no longer have to report data on admissions, occupancy and other indicators of possible system stress from respiratory diseases to federal officials as another COVID-era mandate expires.
  
  Why it matters: The sunset of the reporting requirement on May 1 marks a turning point in the government's real-time tracking of airborne pathogens that helped drive coronavirus surveillance and reports like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's FluView."

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