Summary of Updates

CY 2026 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Rule: Summary of Updates on Hospital Quality Reporting Information Collection
Forms
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Form
Care Compare Request Form for
Withholding/Footnoting Data for Public
Reporting

Notes on Updates
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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
HQR Web-based Measure application form and
attestation if zero cases
HQR Clinical Data Collection Tool

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HQR Population and Sampling Collection Tool
CMS Quality Reporting Validation Educational
Review Form
9. Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM)
Denominator Declaration
10. Total Hip Arthroplasty/Total Knee Arthroplasty
(THA-TKA) Patient-Reported Outcome-based
Performance Measure (PRO-PM)

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11. Hospital Commitment to Health Equity (HCHE)
12. Social Drivers of Health (SDOH)

Added the REHQR program.
Removed COVID-19 HCP, except for the PCHQR Program, and SDOH measures due to rulemaking
proposals.
In the contact sections, separated “Name and Title” to have a line for Name and another line for Title.
This is due to quite often the provider does not include their title.

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No updates made.

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Revised form to reflect potential for ECE extension, rather than only exception.
Updates to instruction language for clarity and proposed deadlines.

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No updates made.

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Updated the measures and added REH.

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No updates made, except to add REH.

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No updates made.

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Updated the measures, the measure names, and the order of the measures to align with changes made in
the HQR System.

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No updates made.

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Removed this data form from the PRA package due to the proposal to remove this measure from the
OQR program.
Removed this data form from the PRA package due to the proposal to remove this measure from the
OQR program.

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