Steward no longer seeking to maintain endorsement.
Effective March 27, 2023, the National Quality Forum (NQF) is no longer the consensus-based entity (CBE) funded through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) National Consensus Development and Strategic Planning for Health Care Quality Measurement Contract. Battelle has been selected to oversee the endorsement & maintenance (E&M) of clinical quality and cost/resource use measures. Since the Fall 2022 cycle launched at NQF, measures submitted to this E&M cycle continued along the prior E&M protocols that were in place at time of the Fall 2022 “Intent to Submit.” Battelle took over the E&M work for the Fall 2022 cycle after developers and/or stewards submitted their full measure information to NQF, which for CBE #3474, the most recent measure specifications can be found here: https://p4qm.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/3474.zip
Battelle took over the E&M work beginning with the public comment period to close the E&M committees for the post-comment meeting, convening the CSAC to render a final endorsement decision, and executing the appeals period.
This measure estimates hospital-level, risk-standardized payments for an elective primary total THA/TKA episode of care, starting with an inpatient admission to a short-term acute care facility and extending 90 days post admission for Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) patients who are 65 years of age or older.
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