CMS Now Requires Annual Reporting of Hospital Respiratory Data for Certain Facility Types

What’s happening: Effective January 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires certain facility types to report hospital respiratory data (HRD) to the National Healthcare Safety Network on an annual basis.

What else to know: All required data elements and reporting information can be found in the HRD Reporting Protocol.

The facility types required to report this data annually are:

Freestanding inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), including Medicaid-only rehabilitation hospitals
Freestanding inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs), including Medicaid-only psychiatric hospitals
CMS-certified IRF units, meaning IRF within a hospital and distinct-part units
CMS-certified IPF units, meaning IPF within a hospital and distinct-part units

To meet the annual reporting requirement, these facility types should report data using either the HRD daily data pathway or HRD weekly data pathway for at least one of the following full weeks — which run from Sunday to Saturday — in January 2025: