No. For PCR, MMP members are removed from Medicaid reporting and are included in only Medicare reporting.
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10.15.2018 Plan All-Cause Readmissions In General Guideline 15: Members With Dual Enrollment, the Medicare-Medicaid (MMP) subhead indicates that these members must be in both the Medicaid and Medicare HEDIS reports. Does this apply to Plan All-Cause Readmissions (PCR)?
9.14.2018 Risk of Continued Opioid Use In the HEDIS 2019 Volume 2 Technical Specifications, the Risk of Continued Opioid Use (COU) measure includes the Medicare product line; however, this measure was not included in the CMS Reporting Requirements memo for HEDIS 2019. Given this discrepancy, is the COU measure reported by Medicare plans?
7.16.2018 Use of Opioids at High Dosage Why is buprenorphine included in the Use of Opioids From Multiple Providers (UOP) and Risk of Continued Opioid Use (COU) measures, but not in the Use of Opioids at High Dosage (UOD) measure?
Unlike UOP and COU, UOD requires the conversion of all dispensed opioids into morphine milligram equivalents (MME). The most current MME conversion file, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, removes buprenorphine, a partial opioid agonist, and states that the drug is not likely to be associated with overdose in the same dose-dependent manner as pure opioid agonists. NCQA removed it from the UOD measure in HEDIS 2019. This change aligns with the decision made by the Pharmacy Quality Alliance, the organization that developed the measure from which UOD was adapted for use in HEDIS.
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7.16.2018 General Guidelines Does a member enrolled in palliative care meet criteria for the hospice exclusion outlined in General Guideline 17?
Palliative care is not the same as hospice care because it can begin when a patient is diagnosed or is undergoing treatment and may not indicate being near end of life. The hospice exclusion requires evidence that the member is receiving hospices services. Documentation that a member is in palliative care is not part of the exclusion.
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5.15.2018 ECDS What data standards does NCQA use to specify ECDS measures?
5.15.2018 ECDS Do you utilize FHIR to specify ECDS measures?
5.15.2018 ECDS How do ECDS measures differ from the eMeasures in Meaningful Use (eCQMs)?
HEDIS ECDS measures are similar to eCQMs in structure, but although eCQMs are reported at the provider level, using data from an EHR, ECDS measures are reported at the health-plan level, using data from multiple sources to form a complete picture of the patient’s experience across the care continuum.
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5.02.2018 Plan All-Cause Readmissions For the Count of Expected 30-Day Readmissions, we are using the calculation in Step 6 in HEDIS Volume 2 (pg. 384), but IDSS is calculating differently. Is this calculation correct?
The calculation for the Count of Expected 30-Day Readmissions is incorrect in Volume 2. IDSS currently calculates this field by using the formula "Count of Expected 30-Day Readmissions" = "Expected Readmission Rate" * "Count of Index Stays".
Please provide data for the Expected Readmission Rate and the Count of Index Stays and IDSS will use these values to generate the correct calculation.
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3.15.2018 Care for Older Adults If the medical record contains a notation of a type of advance care plan (e.g., advance directive, actionable medical orders, living will, surrogate decision maker, full code, DNR) with documentation of “yes” or “no,” does this meet criteria?
If “yes” is documented for a type of advance care plan, this is considered evidence that a member has an advance care plan in place and meets criteria. If “no” is documented, this is considered evidence that the member does not have this type of advance care plan in place and does not meet criteria. For example, documentation of “DNR – No” indicates “the member does not have a DNR,” and does not meet criteria. In addition, documentation of “no” is not considered evidence of an advance care planning discussion (asking if a member has an advance care plan in place and documenting “no” is not considered a discussion).
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3.15.2018 Transitions of Care If an organization reports the measure using the hybrid method and reports two indicators using administrative data from one provider, is the organization limited to only the medical record of that provider when searching for medical record documentation for the other indicators?
No. The Notification of Inpatient Admission and Receipt of Discharge Information indicators do not have to be documented in the same provider chart as the indicators that were reported administratively. Organizations may search the medical record of a different provider for those indicators that were not reported using administrative data.
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3.15.2018 Plan All-Cause Readmissions There is a discrepancy between Step 7 in the Risk Adjustment Weighting section (page 384) and in all the PCR reporting tables for how to calculate the Expected Readmissions Rate. Which one is correct?
Organizations must use the formula in Step 7 to calculate the Expected Readmissions Rate for PCR. The reference in the PCR reporting tables of the “(Expected Readmissions/Den)” is incorrect. The data element should only be “Expected Readmissions Rate.” This removal of the incorrect calculation instruction will be made in the Interactive Data Submission System (IDSS) and data dictionaries.
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2.15.2018 ECDS General Guidelines Should organizations include only paid claims for ECDS measures?
No. Organizations must include all paid, suspended, pending and denied claims for ECDS measures. Currently, ECDS General Guideline 4 states to include only services for which the reporting entity has paid or expects to pay, but because none of the other eligible sources require payment status, any claims should be accepted. The guideline is incorrect and will be corrected for HEDIS 2019
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