The Trump administration is preparing to enforce new COVID-19 data reporting requirements — and threatening to withhold vital Medicare funding from hospitals that don't comply, according to draft documents obtained by NPR.
Hospitals may soon be at risk of losing a critical funding stream — Medicare funding — if they don't comply with new COVID-19 data reporting requirements.John Lamparski/NurPhoto via Getty Images
The reporting system drew national attention in July when the Department of Health and Human Services told hospitalsinformation — such as the number of COVID-19 patients and the availability of intensive care beds — to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and instead report it into a new system managed directly by HHS, the CDC's parent agency.
Threatening Medicare funding is"the nuclear option" for the federal health agency, says Dave Dillon of the Missouri Hospital Association."If what [CMS is] proposing were to go into to effect and if, in fact, they were to do that kind of enforcement, that would shut down the health care system in the country."
If the draft enforcement guidance went into effect today, around three-quarters of hospitals could be subject to receiving a warning. Just 24% of America's hospitals met the HHS reporting requirements for the week of September 14, according to an internal CDC presentation given at a daily pandemic response meeting on September 23, obtained by NPR. No state was in full compliance.
Hospitals have also been asked to provide information on supplies, such as how many single exam gloves they have in the building. According to the internal presentation, data on the supplies of ventilators, gloves and gowns, currently required to be reportedThe pending update to the reporting guidelines will only require the supply data once a week.
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