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For calendar year (CY) 2022, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) participating in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program are required to report on three self-selected electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) and the Safe Use of Opioids – Concurrent Prescribing… Posted on
The Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) System is now open for the voluntary submission of fiscal year (FY) 2024 Hybrid Hospital-Wide Readmission (HWR) measure data for the July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022, reporting period. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated the HQR… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announce the release of Cypress v7.0 as of June 23, 2022. The new release, along with release notes, are available on the Cypress website.
Version 7.0… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has revised the electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) specification for CMS156v11, Use of High-Risk Medications in Older Adults, for the 2023 reporting/performance period for Eligible Clinician programs. CMS revised the age criteria from… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed and published webinar content from the Performance Period 2022 Eligible Clinician Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) Education and Outreach Webinar Series. Both PDF slides, as well as links to the webinar video recordings are… Posted on
The draft 2023 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category III Implementation Guide (IG) and Schematron for Eligible Clinicians Programs are available for public comment starting on May 31, 2022 and closing at 5 pm eastern time (ET) on… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) invites you to view the new Measures Management System (MMS) website, the CMS MMS Hub! Launched Tuesday, May 24, the CMS MMS Hub transforms the MMS Blueprint’s 100 pages of technical content into a comprehensive, easy to use resource for anyone… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proud to bring together stakeholders for the third CMS HL7 FHIR Connectathon taking place between July 19 – 21, 2022. This virtual and FREE 3-day event will provide interoperability policy updates and the “FHIR Implementation Guides that help… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) specifications for the 2023 reporting/performance period for: Eligible Hospitals (EH) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), Hospital Hybrid, Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR), and… Posted on
In fiscal year (FY) 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Final Rule, which finalized updated electronic… Posted on