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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule in the Federal Register on December 10, 2013, that included healthcare personnel (HCP) influenza vaccination summary reporting from ambulatory surgical centers via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) in the CMS Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting (ASCQR) Program requirements beginning with the 2014-2015 influenza season.1 More specifically, the rule announced a requirement for ambulatory surgical centers to report HCP influenza vaccination summary data beginning on October 1, 2014.