Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Published Date: 2/6/2026
Notice
Summary
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants your feedback on their plan to collect some info from the public. This helps them make sure the questions they ask aren’t too much work and actually useful. If you have thoughts, you’ve got until March 9, 2026, to speak up—no money changes, just a chance to improve how info is gathered.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Emergency Preparedness Rules for Providers
If you run a Medicare or Medicaid certified provider or supplier, you must develop, maintain, and annually update emergency preparedness programs that cover four core elements (risk assessment and emergency plan; policies and procedures; communication plan; training and testing). CMS estimates 180,915 respondents, 180,915 total annual responses, and 1,251,158 total annual hours, and the reinstatement adds Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs) as a covered facility type.
New QIN-QIO AIAN Measure Data Collection
CMS will start a new quarterly data collection for the 13th Statement of Work Quality Innovation Network--Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) and American Indian/Alaskan Native (AIAN) programs to gather measure data (derived from MIPS, HIQR, HOQR, and NHSN) to quantify performance and improvement. CMS estimates 16,735 respondents, 66,940 total annual responses, and 1,471,284 total annual hours for this new collection.
PRTF Oversight of Restraint and Seclusion
CMS will continue collecting information to oversee use of involuntary restraint and seclusion in Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs) that serve individuals under age 21 to monitor compliance and determine Medicare certification eligibility; PRTFs are typically surveyed at least once every six years. The reinstated collection lists 366 respondents, 1,376,621 total annual responses, and 439,623 total annual hours.
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