The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the 2023 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category I Implementation Guide (IG), Schematron, and Sample Files for Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR). The 2023 CMS QRDA I IG outlines requirements for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) to report electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) for the calendar year 2023 reporting period for the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program, the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program, and the Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) Program (voluntary).
The 2023 CMS QRDA I IG contains these high-level changes compared with the 2022 CMS QRDA I IG:
The 2023 CMS QRDA I schematron file contains these high-level changes compared with the 2022 CMS QRDA I schematron:
The 2023 CMS QRDA I Sample Files updates include:
Additional QRDA-Related Resources: