What’s happening: Beginning on Nov. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will require acute care hospitals and critical access hospitals to electronically report information via the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) about COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
What else to know: CMS will also require hospitals to provide a weekly snapshot of hospitalizations, admissions, bed capacity and occupancy, and weekly totals for new admissions for COVID-19, influenza, and RSV to provide situational awareness of the impact of these respiratory diseases.
CDC is hosting a webinar to go over the data reporting requirements on Aug. 19.
