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Requires national hospital accreditation surveys to include the CMS–2567 survey/certification form (or a successor standardized form) within two years of enactment and directs HHS to work with stakeholders to develop that successor form. Also requires the Secretary of HHS to publish specified psychiatric hospital survey and certification information on the CMS Care Compare website (or successor) beginning two years after enactment, with publication limited to data allowed by HIPAA and that cannot identify patients or individual providers.
The bill increases transparency and standardization of psychiatric hospital oversight to help patients choose safer care, but it imposes administrative and compliance burdens on hospitals and risks delayed or reduced public benefit if implementation or privacy concerns are not well managed.
Mental-health patients and their families gain publicly accessible psychiatric hospital inspection and certification information on Care Compare, helping them choose safer, higher-quality facilities.
Hospitals and accreditors will use a standardized successor to Form CMS–2567, improving consistency and comparability of survey findings across psychiatric hospitals.
Timely updates and stakeholder collaboration are required to increase transparency and public trust in psychiatric hospital oversight while aiming to avoid revealing protected patient or individual provider identities.
If implementation timelines and stakeholder deadlines remain unspecified, rollout could be delayed or inconsistent, reducing the consumer benefits within the intended two-year window.
Hospitals and accreditation bodies will incur administrative and implementation costs to adopt the successor standardized form and update reporting processes within two years.
Publishing more facility-level survey details online may raise privacy and legal compliance burdens for hospitals, which could limit the amount or usefulness of information actually released.
Introduced August 1, 2025 by Charles Ernest Grassley · Last progress August 1, 2025