SummaryofHQRInformationCollectioinFY2027FinalRule

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FY 2027 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Rule: Summary of Updates on Hospital Quality Reporting Information Collection Forms
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Form
Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Notice of
Participation
Hospital Quality Reporting Data Accuracy and
Completeness Acknowledgement (DACA)
Care Compare Request Form for
Withholding/Footnoting Data for Public
Reporting
CMS Quality Reporting Program APU
Reconsideration Request Form
CMS Hospital IQR Program Validation Review
for Reconsideration Request Form
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
(CMS) Quality Program Extraordinary
Circumstances Exceptions (ECE) Request Form
Maternal Morbidity Structural Measure

Population and Sampling
CMS Quality Reporting Validation Educational
Review Form
10. Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM)
Denominator Declaration
11. Total Hip Arthroplasty/Total Knee Arthroplasty
(THA-TKA) Patient-Reported Outcome-based
Performance Measure (PRO-PM)
12. Age Friendly Hospital Structural Measure
13. Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program
Review and Corrections Request Form
14. Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program
Appeal Request Form
15. Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program
Independent CMS Review Request Form

Notes on Updates

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No changes made.

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Added the PRO-PM Survey and chart-abstracted measures in the example for Quality measure data.

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Added references to outpatient (OQR) and REH.
Removed references to the Optional Public Reporting as that is only used in IQR and not OQR.
Added OQR measures to the Table 1: measures that can be withheld for hospitals that are voluntarily
submitting data.
Removed and addes measures as applicable.
Updated validation section as per the Validation Support Contractor as eCQMs will now be validated the
same way as chart-abstracted measures.
Updated the Discharge Quarter column to include year as per the Validation SC.

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Removed references to extensions as per current rECE esource documents.
Removed NHSN from the OQR and IPF Prgrams as they no longer have any NHSN measures.
Added PIX to the IPF Program.
No changes made at this time.
WILL NEED TO ADD THE PROPOSED NEW QUESTION IF IT IS FINALIZED
No changes made.
In first paragraph, added Unified File Management (UFM) in addition to MFT.

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Reflective of CY 2027/FY 2029 measures.

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New data form.
Vetted through DPS. No updates made.

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Vetted through DPS. No updates made.

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Vetted through DPS. No updates made.

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