CMS Invites Comments on New Public Data Gathering Plan
Published Date: 4/27/2026
Notice
Summary
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants your thoughts on their plan to collect some info from the public. They’re asking for comments by June 26, 2026, to make sure the process is clear, useful, and not too much work. This affects anyone who might provide info to CMS and helps keep things running smoothly without wasting time or money.
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Survey vendors must provide cost and web data
If you are a survey vendor for the CAHPS for MIPS survey, CMS is adding 2 new items to collect cost information and 13 changes (1 new item and 12 revised items) to capture web administration details on form CMS-10450 (OMB 0938-1222). CMS estimates this will raise the vendor application burden from 10 hours to 11 hours per application, affects 26,976 respondents, and results in 6,139 total annual hours; comments are due by June 26, 2026.
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