Becker's Healthcare April 22, 2024
Starting in 2026, CMS could ask hospitals to report emissions.
The voluntary Decarbonization and Resilience Initiative is “designed to address threats posed by climate change to the nation’s health and health care system by collecting, monitoring, assessing, and addressing hospital carbon emissions and their effects on health outcomes, costs, and quality,” according to a CMS release.
Participants in the initiative would be asked to report metrics in four priority areas — organizational, building energy, anesthetic gas and transportation. The voluntary program is proposed to start Jan. 1, 2026, and end...
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