CMS Requests Comments on Medicare Data Collection
Published Date: 12/17/2025
Notice
Summary
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants your feedback on their plan to collect some info from the public. This is a routine check to make sure the questions they ask aren’t too much work and actually help them do their job better. If you have thoughts, you’ve got until January 16, 2026, to speak up—no cost to comment, just your time!
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Electronic Prescribing Required for Medicare Part D
For prescriptions of Schedule II, III, IV, and V controlled substances under Medicare Part D, prescribing must be done electronically beginning January 1, 2021. CMS finalized compliance deadlines so prescribers not in long-term care facilities must comply beginning in calendar year 2023, and prescribers in long-term care facilities must comply beginning in calendar year 2028.
Waiver Form and Data Collection for EPCS Exception
CMS requires prescribers who cannot conduct electronic prescribing for controlled substances due to circumstances beyond their control to apply for a waiver using Form CMS-10834. The collection is annual, lists 306 respondents, and totals 52 annual hours for the information collection (OMB control number 0938-1455).
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