The measure calculates the percentage of long-stay residents, those living in the skilled nursing facility for 100 days or more, who are satisfied. This patient reported outcome measure is based on the CoreQ: Long-Stay Resident questionnaire that is a three-item questionnaire.
The measure calculates the percentage of individuals discharged in a six-month time period from a SNF, within 100 days of admission, who are satisfied. This patient reported outcome measure is based on the CoreQ: Short Stay Discharge questionnaire that utilizes four items.
Percentage of patients assigned female at birth and ages 15-44 who were asked if they wanted to talk about contraception or pregnancy prevention and had their response recorded during the measurement period (which is a calendar year), among patients with a qualifying encounter; to focus on the population of non-postpartum women, the measure excludes those individuals who had a live birth making them eligible for postpartum contraceptive services, and also excludes those who are anatomically infecund or have had female sterilization from the denominator.
This facility-level measure estimates an all-cause, unplanned, 30-day, risk-standardized readmission rate for adult Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) patients with a principal discharge diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder or dementia/Alzheimer’s disease.
The performance period for the measure is 24 months.
Percent of acute ischemic stroke patients receiving intravenous alteplase therapy during the hospital stay who have a time from hospital arrival to initiation of thrombolytic therapy (door-to-needle time) of 60 minutes or less
This is a measure of follow-up clinical visits for patients with chronic conditions who have experienced an acute exacerbation of one of six conditions (eight categories) of interest (coronary artery disease [CAD] {high or low acuity}, hypertension {high or medium acuity}, heart failure [HF], diabetes, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD]) and are among adult Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) beneficiaries who are attributed to entities participating in the CMMI Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) model.
Percentage of discharges from an inpatient facility (eg, hospital inpatient or observation, skilled nursing facility, or rehabilitation facility) to home or any other site of care, of patients, regardless of age, for which a transition record was transmitted to the facility or primary physician or other health care professional designated for follow-up care within 24 hours of discharge
The percentage of adolescents 12 to 20 years of age with a primary care visit during the measurement year for whom tobacco use status was documented and received help with quitting if identified as a tobacco user.
The Total Per Capita Cost (TPCC) measure assesses the overall cost of care delivered to a beneficiary with a focus on the primary care they receive from their provider(s). The TPCC measure score is a clinician’s average risk-adjusted and specialty-adjusted cost across all beneficiary months attributed to the clinician during a one year performance period.
The percentage of children ages 2 through 15 years old with sickle cell anemia (Hemoglobin SS) who received at least one transcranial Doppler (TCD) screening within a year.