The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized the removal on July 29 as part of its annual payment rule for skilled nursing facilities. Nursing homes are not being told to stop offering or recommending COVID-19 vaccines to staff or residents. What ends is the requirement to submit these two specific measures to CMS as part of the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program. This is also not the first narrowing of public vaccination data for nursing homes. The bottom line: Medicare will stop requiring nursing homes to report staff and resident COVID vaccination figures starting with FY 2028, while shortening reporting lag and expanding assessment data collection.