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The bill increases transparency and comparability of psychiatric hospital survey results—helping patients, families, and regulators identify and oversee higher‑quality care—while imposing compliance and federal IT costs and a small but meaningful privacy risk for psychiatric patients.
Patients, families, and other consumers gain clearer, standardized psychiatric hospital survey findings published on Care Compare, making it easier to compare facilities and choose higher‑quality care.
Hospitals, state governments, and regulators benefit from standardized survey reporting and required stakeholder input, improving data consistency, interpretability, and oversight of psychiatric facilities.
Hospitals and accreditation bodies will incur compliance costs to adopt the standardized form and update survey processes, which may be passed on to patients or payers.
CMS and taxpayers will face additional administrative and IT costs to collect, format, update, and publish psychiatric hospital survey data on Care Compare.
Public disclosure of psychiatric survey findings risks inadvertent privacy exposure for psychiatric patients if de‑identification is imperfect.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires accreditation surveys for psychiatric hospitals to include CMS Form 2567 (or a successor) and directs CMS to publish psychiatric hospital survey/certification information on Care Compare, subject to HIPAA limits.
Introduced August 1, 2025 by Charles Ernest Grassley · Last progress August 1, 2025
Requires national accreditation surveys for psychiatric hospitals to include CMS Form 2567 (or a successor standardized form) and directs the Department of Health and Human Services to publish psychiatric hospital certification/accreditation survey information on the Care Compare website. The requirements begin two years after enactment; the Secretary must develop any successor standardized form in consultation with stakeholders and must work with stakeholders to decide what survey information to publish, limited to disclosures that comply with HIPAA and that do not identify patients or individual providers.