State Requirements for Demographic Data Reporting upon Hospital Discharge: An Overview for State Flex Programs
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Description
Summarizes results of an environmental scan of state-level policies regarding current state requirements regarding hospitals' collection and reporting of demographic data among 37 of the 45 states participating in the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program. Describes requirements for sex, gender, and sexual orientation data; race, ethnicity, and language data; and other data and reporting, as well as variations in how categories are defined across states. Discusses challenges Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) may face in meeting state requirements.
Author(s)
Madeleine Pick, Carson Crane, Megan Lahr
Date
05/2024
Type
Document
Organization
Flex Monitoring Team
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Critical Access Hospitals · Hospitals · Legislation and regulations · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data