Registry data

Adult patients with advanced cancer who are screened for pain with a standardized quantitative tool at each outpatient visit

Percentage of women with Stage I-IIb breast cancer that received either axillary node dissection or Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy (SLNB) at the time of surgery (lumpectomy or mastectomy)

2022 submission:

Percentage of calendar months within a 12-month period during which patients aged 17 years and younger with a diagnosis of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) receiving hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis have a hemoglobin level < 10 g/dL

Percentage of patients undergoing cervical spine radiographs in trauma who do not have neck pain, distracting pain, neurological deficits, reduced level of conciousness or intoxication.

Percentage of patients who died from cancer, and admitted to hospice and spent less than 3 days there

Percentage of patients who died from cancer admitted to the ICU in the last 30 days of life

This measure tracks the percentage of patients in each dialysis practitioner group practice who were on the kidney or kidney-pancreas transplant waitlist. Results are averaged across patients prevalent on the last day of each month during the reporting year.

Please note, this measure is at the dialysis practitioner level (the clinician who receives the Monthly Capitation Payment for overseeing dialysis care).

The proposed measure is a directly standardized percentage, which is adjusted for covariates (e.g. age and risk factors).

Percentage of patients, aged 18 years and older, for whom percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is performed with comprehensive documentation for the procedure that includes, at a minimum, the following elements: priority (acute coronary syndrome, urgent, elective, emergency/salvage); presence and severity of angina symptoms; use of antianginal medical therapies within two weeks prior to the procedure, if any; presence, results, and timing of non-invasive stress test, fractional flow reserve (FFR), or intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), if performed; and significance of angiographic stenosi

Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older for whom PCI is performed who are prescribed optimal medical therapy at discharge