No. NCQA has decided to retire the Aspirin Use and Discussion (ASP) measure due to misalignment with updated recommendations from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). The updated USPSTF aspirin recommendations include a calculation of 10-year cardiovascular risk and an estimate of 10-year life expectancy. This information would be required to identify the denominator of the ASP measure and because it cannot be captured in the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers & Systems (CAHPS) Health Plan Survey or claims data, we are unable to adapt the measure to be consistent with the USPSTF findings.
The aspirin questions remain in the HEDIS 2017 CAHPS questionnaire but member responses to the questions will not be submitted to NCQA by the certified survey vendor. The questions will be removed from the HEDIS 2018 CAHPS questionnaire.
ALL 2017