eCQMs for 2019 Performance Period CMS2v8 CMS22v7 CMS50v7 CMS52v7 CMS56v7 CMS66v7 CMS68v8 CMS69v7 CMS74v8 CMS75v7 CMS82v6 CMS90v8 CMS117v7 CMS122v7 CMS124v7 CMS125v7 CMS127v7 CMS128v7 CMS129v8 CMS130v7 CMS131v7 CMS132v7 CMS133v7 CMS134v7 CMS135v7 CMS136v8 CMS137v7 CMS138v7 CMS139v7 CMS142v7 CMS143v7 CMS144v7 CMS145v7 CMS146v7 CMS147v8 CMS149v7 CMS153v7 CMS154v7 CMS155v7 CMS156v7 CMS157v7 CMS159v7 CMS160v7 CMS161v7 CMS165v7 CMS177v7 CMS249v1 CMS347v2 CMS349v1 CMS645v2 CMS Measure ID CMS159v7 Version 7 NQF Number 0710 Measure Description The percentage of adolescent patients 12 to 17 years of age and adult patients 18 years of age or older with major depression or dysthymia who reached remission 12 months (+/- 60 days) after an index event. Initial Population Adolescent patients 12 to 17 years of age and adult patients 18 years of age and older with a diagnosis of major depression or dysthymia and an initial PHQ-9 or PHQ-9M score greater than nine during the index event Denominator Statement Equals Initial Population Denominator Exclusions 1: Patients who died 2: Patients who received hospice or palliative care services 3: Patients who were permanent nursing home residents 4: Patients with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder 5: Patients with a diagnosis of personality disorder 6: Patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or psychotic disorder 7: Patients with a diagnosis of pervasive developmental disorder Numerator Statement Adolescent patients 12 to 17 years of age and adult patients 18 years of age and older who achieved remission at twelve months as demonstrated by a twelve month (+/- 60 days) PHQ-9 or PHQ-9M score of less than five Numerator Exclusions Not Applicable Denominator Exceptions None Measure Steward MN Community Measurement Domain Effective Clinical Care Previous Version CMS159v6 Next Version CMS159v8 Measure Scoring Proportion Measure Type Outcome Improvement Notation Higher score indicates better quality Guidance None Quality ID 370 Meaningful Measure Prevention, Treatment, and Management of Mental Health Specifications Attachment Size CMS159v7.html 83.15 KB CMS159v7.zip 65.8 KB CMS159v7_TRN.xlsx 20.49 KB Release Notes Header Updated Version Number. Measure Section: eMeasure Version number Source of Change: Measure Lead Added an adolescent population (12 to 17 years of age) to the measure and stratification of the denominator population (Strata 1: 12 to 17 years of age and Strata 2: 18 years of age and older) to better align with measure intent. Measure Section: Description Source of Change: Measure Lead Expanded the reassessment window to 12 months +/- 60 days due to the challenges in providing following up for patients with depression. Measure Section: Description Source of Change: Measure Lead Updated Copyright. Measure Section: Copyright Source of Change: Annual Update Added an adolescent population (12 to 17 years of age) to the measure and stratification of the denominator population (Strata 1: 12 to 17 years of age and Strata 2: 18 years of age and older) to better align with measure intent. Measure Section: Stratification Source of Change: Measure Lead Added an adolescent population (12 to 17 years of age) to the measure and stratification of the denominator population (Strata 1: 12 to 17 years of age and Strata 2: 18 years of age and older) to better align with measure intent. Measure Section: Rationale Source of Change: Measure Lead Added an adolescent population (12 to 17 years of age) to the measure and stratification of the denominator population (Strata 1: 12 to 17 years of age and Strata 2: 18 years of age and older) to better align with measure intent. Measure Section: Clinical Recommendation Statement Source of Change: Measure Lead Added an adolescent population (12 to 17 years of age) to the measure and stratification of the denominator population (Strata 1: 12 to 17 years of age and Strata 2: 18 years of age and older) to better align with measure intent. Measure Section: Reference Source of Change: Measure Lead Expanded the reassessment window to 12 months +/- 60 days due to the challenges in providing following up for patients with depression. Measure Section: Definition Source of Change: Measure Lead Added an adolescent population (12 to 17 years of age) to the measure and stratification of the denominator population (Strata 1: 12 to 17 years of age and Strata 2: 18 years of age and older) to better align with measure intent. Measure Section: Initial Population Source of Change: Measure Lead Added an adolescent population (12 to 17 years of age) to the measure and stratification of the denominator population (Strata 1: 12 to 17 years of age and Strata 2: 18 years of age and older) to better align with measure intent. Measure Section: Numerator Source of Change: Measure Lead Expanded the reassessment window to 12 months +/- 60 days due to the challenges in providing following up for patients with depression. Measure Section: Numerator Source of Change: Measure Lead Logic Removed the use of the 'Principal Diagnosis' attribute for the Psychiatric Visit. Added diagnoses of Schizophrenia or Psychotic Disorder and Pervasive Developmental Disorder to Denominator Exclusions. This change allows more accurate identification of the patient population. Measure Section: Initial Population Source of Change: JIRA (CQM-2578) Replaced the Office Visit (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1001), Psych Visit (2.16.840.113883.3.67.1.101.3.2445) and Face to Face Interaction – No ED (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1080.1) value sets with the new Contact or Office Visit (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1080.5) value set to more accurately identify encounters with patients being treated for depression. Measure Section: Initial Population Source of Change: Measure Lead Removed the use of the 'Principal Diagnosis' attribute for the Psychiatric Visit. Added diagnoses of Schizophrenia or Psychotic Disorder and Pervasive Developmental Disorder to Denominator Exclusions. This change allows more accurate identification of the patient population. Measure Section: Denominator Source of Change: JIRA (CQM-2578) Replaced the Office Visit (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1001), Psych Visit (2.16.840.113883.3.67.1.101.3.2445) and Face to Face Interaction – No ED (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1080.1) value sets with the new Contact or Office Visit (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1080.5) value set to more accurately identify encounters with patients being treated for depression. Measure Section: Denominator Source of Change: Measure Lead Expanded the reassessment window to 12 months +/- 60 days due to the challenges in providing following up for patients with depression. Measure Section: Denominator Exclusions Source of Change: Measure Lead Removed the use of the 'Principal Diagnosis' attribute for the Psychiatric Visit. Added diagnoses of Schizophrenia or Psychotic Disorder and Pervasive Developmental Disorder to Denominator Exclusions. This change allows more accurate identification of the patient population. Measure Section: Denominator Exclusions Source of Change: JIRA (CQM-2578) Replaced the Office Visit (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1001), Psych Visit (2.16.840.113883.3.67.1.101.3.2445) and Face to Face Interaction – No ED (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1080.1) value sets with the new Contact or Office Visit (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1080.5) value set to more accurately identify encounters with patients being treated for depression. Measure Section: Denominator Exclusions Source of Change: Measure Lead Expanded the reassessment window to 12 months +/- 60 days due to the challenges in providing following up for patients with depression. Measure Section: Numerator Source of Change: Measure Lead Added an adolescent population (12 to 17 years of age) to the measure and stratification of the denominator population (Strata 1: 12 to 17 years of age and Strata 2: 18 years of age and older) to better align with measure intent. Measure Section: Stratification Source of Change: Measure Lead Removed the use of the 'Principal Diagnosis' attribute for the Psychiatric Visit. Added diagnoses of Schizophrenia or Psychotic Disorder and Pervasive Developmental Disorder to Denominator Exclusions. This change allows more accurate identification of the patient population. Measure Section: Stratification Source of Change: JIRA (CQM-2578) Replaced the Office Visit (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1001), Psych Visit (2.16.840.113883.3.67.1.101.3.2445) and Face to Face Interaction – No ED (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1080.1) value sets with the new Contact or Office Visit (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1080.5) value set to more accurately identify encounters with patients being treated for depression. Measure Section: Stratification Source of Change: Measure Lead Added supplemental timing attributes to most datatypes in QDM 5.3 to facilitate accurate retrieval of time related information within CQL logic. Timing attributes now include a time interval, such as prevalence period or relevant period, and/or actual time of documentation with Author Datetime. Relevant period is the general method to describe start and stop times for datatypes. Prevalence period is used for some datatypes to more accurately define onset and abatement times. Measure Section: Multiple Sections Source of Change: Standards Update Assigned cardinality to each attribute to be more explicit in guiding specification and implementation of QDM data elements. Cardinality refers to the number of instances of the attribute that can be included in the measure description. Cardinality for most attributes is 0.. 1 (i.e., can occur up to 1 time), but some attributes have a cardinality of 0.. * (i.e., can occur multiple times). Measure Section: Multiple Sections Source of Change: Standards Update CQL libraries contain sets of CQL definitions, or CQL expression statements. A context statement, patient or population, can now be used in a CQL library to clearly establish how the subsequent list of CQL expressions will be interpreted. A 'Population' context will interpret the CQL expression with reference to the entire population of the item being counted, patients or encounters. A 'Patient' context will interpret the CQL expression with reference to a single patient. Context statements are not required, but one or more context statements may be used within a library to help clarify how the CQL expressions will be interpreted. Patient context is the default if none is specified. Measure Section: Multiple Sections Source of Change: Standards Update Replaced measure-defined definitions with similar definitions and functions from CQL shared libraries for consistency across measures. Measure Section: Multiple Sections Source of Change: Standards Update Updated measure logic from Quality Data Model (QDM)-based logic to Clinical Quality Language (CQL)-based logic. Information on CQL can be found at the eCQI Resource center (https://ecqi.healthit.gov/cql). Information about specific versions of the new standards in use for CMS reporting periods can be found at the eCQI Resource Center (https://ecqi.healthit.gov/ecqm-tools-key-resources). Switching from QDM to CQL brings with it many changes, as well as enhanced expression capability, but only those changes with significant impact will be outlined in technical release notes. For example, in the case of timing operators, changes may only be summarized if those changes impact the measure calculation. Measure Section: Multiple Sections Source of Change: Standards Update Value Set The VSAC is the source of truth for the value set content, please visit the VSAC for downloads of current value sets. Value set Care Services in Long-Term Residential Facility (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1014): Added SNOMEDCT extensional value set (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.11.1262) including 2 codes. Measure Section: QDM Data Elements Source of Change: Annual Update Value set Major Depression Including Remission (2.16.840.113883.3.67.1.101.3.2444): Added 4 SNOMEDCT codes (16265951000119109, 16266831000119100, 16266991000119108, 726772006). Measure Section: QDM Data Elements Source of Change: Annual Update Value set Personality Disorder (2.16.840.1.113883.3.67.1.101.1.246): Deleted 17 ICD9CM codes. Deleted 10 ICD10CM codes (F21, F60.0, F60.1, F60.2, F60.5, F60.6, F60.7, F60.81, F60.89, F60.9). Deleted 24 SNOMEDCT codes, 17 ICD9 codes, and 10 ICD10 codes. Measure Section: QDM Data Elements Source of Change: Annual Update Value set Contact or Office Visit (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1080.5): Added Contact or Office Visit. Measure Section: QDM Data Elements Source of Change: Annual Update Value set Schizophrenia or Psychotic Disorder (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.105.12.1104): Added Schizophrenia or Psychotic Disorder. Measure Section: QDM Data Elements Source of Change: Annual Update Value set Pervasive Developmental Disorder (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.105.12.1152): Added Pervasive Developmental Disorder. Measure Section: QDM Data Elements Source of Change: Annual Update Value set Payer (2.16.840.1.114222.4.11.3591): Added 11 SOP codes (299, 32127, 32128, 391, 517, 524, 614, 621, 622, 623, 629) and deleted 3 SOP codes (63, 64, 69). Measure Section: QDM Data Elements Source of Change: Annual Update Replaced the Office Visit (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1001), Psych Visit (2.16.840.113883.3.67.1.101.3.2445) and Face to Face Interaction – No ED (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1080.1) value sets with the new Contact or Office Visit (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1080.5) value set to more accurately identify encounters with patients being treated for depression. Measure Section: QDM Data Elements Source of Change: Measure Lead Replaced LOINC single code value sets with direct referenced codes. A direct referenced code is a single concept code that is used to describe a clinical element directly within the logic. The use of direct referenced codes replaces the need for single code value sets. Measures using other code systems in single value sets may optionally transition to direct referenced codes. Measure Section: QDM Data Elements Source of Change: Standards Update Value set Schizophrenia or Psychotic Disorder (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.105.12.1104): Added 3 SNOMEDCT codes (191536002, 191537006, 191540006). Measure Section: QDM Data Elements Source of Change: 2019 Addendum Value set Payer (2.16.840.1.114222.4.11.3591): Deleted 1 SOP code (24). Measure Section: QDM Data Elements Source of Change: 2019 Addendum Value set Major Depression Including Remission (2.16.840.113883.3.67.1.101.3.2444): Added 2 SNOMEDCT codes (10811121000119102, 10811161000119107). Measure Section: QDM Data Elements Source of Change: 2019 Addendum Data Elements contained within CMS159v7 External Resources United States Health Information Knowledgebase NLM Value Set Authority Center (VSAC)