On August 2, 2021 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule (CMS-1752-F) that provides updates to and finalized proposals for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Long Term Care Hospital Quality Reporting Program (LTCH QRP). This rule includes one new finalized measure, the COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage among Healthcare Personnel (HCP) Measure, as well as updates to the specifications for the Transfer of Health (TOH) Information to the Patient-Post-Acute Care Quality Measure and public reporting of LTCH Ventilator Liberation Rate and Spontaneous Breathing Trial measures for the LTCH QRP. In addition, CMS finalized a modification to public reporting for the LTCH QRP quality measures in order to accommodate the exception of 2020 Q1 and Q2 data.
The final rule went on display at the Federal Register and will be available at: https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection