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Amends section 1865 by revising language in subsection (b) (striking "agency or" and inserting "agency") and by adding a new subsection (f) requiring national accreditation bodies to include Form CMS–2567 (or a successor) in accreditation surveys beginning two years after enactment and requiring the Secretary to develop the successor form in consultation with stakeholders by a specified (not-yet-provided) deadline.
Amends section 1866 by adding a new subsection (l) that requires the Secretary to publish specified information about psychiatric hospital certification functions performed under agreements and accreditation surveys for psychiatric hospitals on the CMS Care Compare website beginning two years after enactment; directs the Secretary to work with stakeholders to identify appropriate information and formatting (by a not-yet-specified deadline); and limits publication to information permitted by HIPAA privacy regulations and that does not permit identification of patients or individual healthcare providers.
Requires national hospital accreditation organizations to include Form CMS–2567 (or a successor standardized form) with their accreditation survey materials and directs the Secretary of HHS to publish selected psychiatric hospital survey or certification information on the CMS Care Compare website. Both requirements take effect two years after enactment and bar publishing any information that would identify individual patients or providers.
Amend Section 1865 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395bb) by changing the text in subsection (b): strike "agency or" and insert "agency".
Add new subsection (f) to Section 1865 requiring that, beginning on or after 2 years after enactment, each national accreditation body that conducts an accreditation survey under that section shall include Form CMS–2567 (or a successor form once developed) in the survey, along with any additional information the body determines appropriate.
Require the Secretary to work with relevant stakeholders, including national accreditation bodies, to develop a successor standardized form (to replace or succeed Form CMS–2567) that meets the needs of accreditation bodies and helps health care consumers make informed decisions. The provision sets a placeholder for a "Not later than (to be provided)" deadline for development.
Amend Section 1866 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395cc) by adding a new subsection (l) that requires public availability of psychiatric hospital survey information on the CMS Care Compare website (or successor website). The Secretary must publish the specified information and provide for timely updates beginning 2 years after enactment.
Require the Secretary, subject to a forthcoming deadline placeholder, to work with stakeholders (including accreditation organizations and psychiatric hospitals) to identify what information about psychiatric hospital certification functions or accreditation surveys is appropriate to disclose and how that information should be formatted and communicated to help health care consumers make informed decisions. The provision uses a "Not later than (to be provided)" placeholder for that stakeholder work.
Who is affected and how:
Accrediting agencies or associations: Required to include Form CMS–2567 (or an authorized successor) with accreditation survey materials; this may require process updates to ensure the form is consistently provided with surveys.
Hospitals (including psychiatric hospitals): Accreditation surveys will include standardized CMS survey/citation documentation; psychiatric hospitals will have selected survey or certification information published on CMS Care Compare, increasing public visibility of their survey results. Hospitals may need to adjust internal reporting or privacy reviews to align with public posting rules.
Healthcare providers (hospital staff and administrators): May face modest administrative changes to ensure survey documentation and responses follow the standardized form and privacy protections.
CMS / HHS: Will need to implement procedures to select, redact, and publish psychiatric hospital survey/certification information on Care Compare while ensuring patient and provider privacy; this requires operational work but is limited in scope.
Public and patients: Will gain greater access to non-identifying survey and certification information about psychiatric hospitals via Care Compare, improving transparency for care decisions.
Overall effects: administrative and operational adjustments for accrediting bodies, hospitals, and CMS to standardize and publish survey information. Benefits include improved transparency and comparability of survey/citation data; costs are mainly procedural and privacy-review efforts. No direct appropriations or broad regulatory changes to other programs are included.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced August 1, 2025 by Charles Ernest Grassley · Last progress August 1, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate