The Department of Health and Human Services will hold a webinar on Thursday, October 22 at 1:00 (eastern) about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ recent guidance explaining how it will implement an interim final rule that makes the collection and reporting of COVID-19 data a condition of participation in Medicare for hospitals.

On August 24 CMS published an interim final rule establishing new requirements in the hospital conditions of participation in Medicare and on October 6 HHS published the updated document “COVID-19 Guidance for Hospital Reporting and FAQs For Hospitals, Hospital Laboratory, and Acute Care Facility Reporting.”  Among the data elements hospitals are required to report are their current count of lab-confirmed COVID-19 patients, number of staffed beds, number of occupied ICU beds, and information about personal protective equipment and ventilators.

The purpose of the webinar is to explain to providers how HHS will implement these requirements.

Go here to register for the webinar.