The 2027 Annual Update draft measure specifications are now available. Question and comment on Eligible Clinician eCQMs, Hospital - Inpatient eCQMs, and Hospital - Outpatient eCQM until December 19, 2025.
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Is there a way to provide a standard structure to construct an eCQM including metadata, data criteria, population criteria, based on the QDM?
This information is in the CQL-based Health Quality Measure Format (HQMF) Implementation Guide (IG). This document describes constraints on the HQMF Normative edition Release 1 (HQMF R1) header and body elements for the CQL-based HQMF. Volume 3 of the IG references QDM. CMS is currently using QDM v5.6 and CQL-based HQMF STU 4.1 addresses QDM v5.6
Last Updated: Jun 12, 2025