The Risk Standardized Mortality Ratio for Late-Stage CKD and ESRD is an outcome measure to assess how well providers prevent mortality among patients with stage 4 or 5 CKD or ESRD. This measure assesses nephrology practices who care for adult Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) beneficiaries with late-stage CKD and ESRD.

The Delay in Progression of CKD Measure is an outcome measure to assess how well providers delay progression from Stage 4 CKD to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring chronic dialysis.

Percentage of patients 13 years of age and older with a diagnosis of HIV who had tests for syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia performed within the measurement period.

Percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of HIV who had at least two eligible encounters or at least one eligible encounter and one HIV viral load test that were at least 90 days apart within the measurement period.

The Risk Adjusted Post-Ambulance Provider Triage Emergency Department (ED) Visit Rate Measure (shorthand: Post-Triage ED Visit Rate Measure) assesses the quality of the triage and decision making by ambulance providers who transport low acuity patients to an alternative destination (non-ED location), or facilitate Treatment In Place (TIP), by identifying whether patients have a subsequent ED visit or death within three days.

Hospital-level measure scores are calculated as a risk-adjusted proportion of the number of delivery hospitalizations for women who experience a severe obstetric complication, as defined by the numerator, by the total number of delivery hospitalizations in the denominator during the measurement period.

This eCQM assesses the rate of delayed diagnosis of VTE in adults aged 18 years and older in the primary care setting. Delayed diagnosis is defined as diagnosis of VTE that occurs >24 hours following the index primary care visit where symptoms for the VTE were first present (within 30 days).

This outcome measure tracks the rate of adult patients (aged 18 years and older) treated and released from the Emergency Department (ED) with either a non-specific, presumed benign symptom-only dizziness diagnosis or a specific inner ear/vestibular diagnosis (collectively referred to as “benign dizziness”) who were subsequently admitted to a hospital for a stroke within 30 days of their ED visit.