Aug 01, 2025
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is alerting IRF providers of upcoming measure removals from the IRF Quality Reporting Program (QRP). The following quality measures are planned for removal from the iQIES Provider Preview Report in September 2025 and Provider Threshold Report in October 2025:
- COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage among Healthcare Personnel (HCP) Measure
- COVID-19 Vaccine: Percent of Patients/Residents Who Are Up to Date
The COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage among HCP Measure is planned for removal from the Quality Measure (QM) Facility-Level Report in October 2025. Once removed from reports, users will no longer have access to any data or measure results for these measures.
The COVID-19 Vaccine: Percent of Patients/Residents Who are Up to Date measure is planned for removal from the IRF Review and Correct Report in October 2025.
These measures last appeared in the Provider Preview Reports for the September 2025 refresh of IRF QRP data. Starting with the December 2025 refresh, these measures will be removed from the compare tool on Medicare.gov and the Provider Data Catalog. After removal, the historic publicly reported measure data will remain available in the IRF QRP Data Archive files on the Provider Data Catalog.
Please direct any questions on these measure removals or questions related to quality measures on the IRF QRP Reports to the IRF QRP public reporting help desk at IRFPRQuestions@cms.hhs.gov.