Sponsor
Charles Ernest Grassley
Senator · R-IA
Senator · R-IA
The bill improves transparency and consumer access to psychiatric hospital survey results—helping patients choose higher-quality care and regulators compare facilities—at the cost of compliance burdens for hospitals, privacy risks for psychiatric patients, and added CMS administrative expenses.
Patients (including those with chronic conditions) and their families will see psychiatric hospital survey findings published on Care Compare, making it easier to compare facilities and choose higher-quality care.
Patients and families will get clearer, standardized survey findings because psychiatric hospital accreditation surveys must use the CMS–2567 form, improving transparency about facility compliance.
Hospitals, state governments, and regulators will benefit from more consistent, stakeholder-informed data formatting that makes survey results easier to interpret and compare across facilities.
Hospitals and accreditation bodies will incur compliance costs to adopt the CMS–2567 form and update survey processes, costs that may be passed on to patients or payers.
Psychiatric patients face increased risk of privacy harm if publicly disclosed survey information is not perfectly de-identified, potentially exposing sensitive patient details.
Taxpayers and federal agencies will incur additional administrative and IT costs for CMS to collect, format, update, and publish psychiatric hospital survey data on Care Compare.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires psychiatric hospital accreditation surveys to include CMS Form 2567 (or a successor) and directs CMS to publish psychiatric hospital survey/certification information on Care Compare beginning two years after enactment.
Official title: Amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to release accreditation surveys related to hospitals and psychiatric hospitals and certain information related to such surveys for psychiatric hospitals, and for other purposes.
Introduced August 1, 2025 by Charles Ernest Grassley · Last progress August 1, 2025
Requires national hospital accreditation surveys for psychiatric hospitals to include the standardized CMS Form 2567 (or a successor form) and directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to publish psychiatric hospital certification/accreditation survey information on the Care Compare website. The requirements start two years after enactment and the Secretary must work with stakeholders to design any successor form and the public display format, while protecting patient privacy under HIPAA.