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The bill increases transparency and comparability of psychiatric hospital accreditation to help patients choose and to encourage quality improvement, but it imposes costs on hospitals and raises privacy and information-completeness trade-offs that must be managed carefully.
People seeking psychiatric care (including those with substance-use disorders and chronic conditions) will gain access to standardized accreditation and survey information about psychiatric hospitals, making it easier to compare quality and increasing public accountability that can drive quality improvement.
Hospitals and national accrediting bodies will adopt a standardized successor to Form CMS-2567, improving consistency and transparency of survey reporting across facilities and simplifying compliance and oversight.
Patients at psychiatric hospitals face a risk that accreditation survey details made public could inadvertently reveal protected health information if not carefully redacted, creating privacy and HIPAA compliance concerns.
Hospitals may incur additional administrative burden and costs to adopt the successor form, prepare materials, and post information publicly, which could strain resources for some facilities.
Some useful survey details may be withheld or redacted because of privacy or formatting limits, which could limit the usefulness of posted information for consumers trying to compare care options.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires accreditation surveys to include CMS Form–2567 (or a successor) and directs HHS to publish appropriate accreditation/certification information about psychiatric hospitals on Care Compare, starting two years after enactment.
Introduced August 1, 2025 by Charles Ernest Grassley · Last progress August 1, 2025
Requires national hospital accreditation surveys to include Form CMS–2567 (or a standardized successor) and directs HHS to develop that successor with stakeholders. Also directs the HHS Secretary to publish appropriate information about certification functions and accreditation surveys for psychiatric hospitals on the CMS Care Compare website, while protecting patient and provider privacy. Both new requirements begin two years after the law takes effect. The measure focuses on public transparency about psychiatric hospital survey results and alignment between accreditation surveys and the federal survey citation form, without providing new funding.