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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the draft 2024 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category I Implementation Guide (IG) for Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) for public comment starting on March 28, 2023, and ending at 5 p.m. eastern time (ET) on… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published an update to the 2023 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category I Implementation Guide (IG) and Schematron for Hospital Quality Reporting. This is an update to the IG version 1.1 published in January 2023.… Posted on
On behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Mathematica and the National Committee for Quality Assurance are developing and testing a new clinical quality measure: Diabetic Foot Assessment and Follow-Up. This measure assesses the percentage of patients ages 18 years and… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed and published webinar content from the Performance Period 2023 Eligible Clinician Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) Education and Outreach Webinar. Webinar slides in PDF format and links to the webinar video recording are… Posted on
CMS is excited to announce the recent publication of ‘Aligning Quality Measures Across CMS— The Universal Foundation’ in the New England Journal of Medicine. To further the goals of the CMS National Quality Strategy, CMS leaders from across the Agency have come together to move towards a building-… Posted on
For hospitals participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) and/or Medicare Promoting Interoperability Programs, the deadline to submit data for the mandatory Safe Use of Opioids-Concurrent Prescribing electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) and three self-selected eCQMs, for… Posted on
As part of its measure development process, Brigham and Women’s Hospital requests comments on candidate or concept eCQMs. The purpose of the DOVE eCQM is to quantify the rate of delayed diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) following a primary care encounter where patients self-report VTE… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQM) Annual Update Pre-Publication Document, which describes changes in the standards and code system versions used in the updated eCQMs for potential use in CMS… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) invites vendors and stakeholders to review and provide feedback on draft electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) specifications that include logic and header changes for eCQMs under consideration for CMS quality reporting and payment… Posted on
Register today for the virtual 2023 CMS Quality Conference, Building Resilient Communities: Having an Equitable Foundation for Quality Healthcare! Join in from May 1-3, 2023, to explore and learn from patients, expert advocates, providers, researchers, and champions of healthcare quality… Posted on