This measure assesses the degree to which the organization initiates and engages members identified with a need for alcohol and other drug (AOD) abuse and dependence services and the degree to which members initiate and continue treatment once the need has been identified. Two rates are reported:
Percentage of adult inpatient hospital discharges to home for which the individual was on warfarin and discharged with a non-therapeutic International Normalized Ratio (INR) who had an INR test within 14 days of hospital discharge
The percentage of patients 18 to 75 years of age who were discharged alive with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) during the 12 months prior to the measurement year, or who had a diagnosis of ischemic vascular disease (IVD) during the measurement year and the year prior to the measurement year and who had the following during the measurement year:
- Blood pressure control (BP): reported as under control <140/90 mm Hg.
The percentage of patients 18 years of age and older who were discharged from an inpatient setting with an acute myocardial infarction (AMI), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) during the 12 months prior to the measurement year, or who had a diagnosis of ischemic vascular disease (IVD) during the measurement year and the year prior to the measurement year and who had documentation of routine use of aspirin or another antiplatelet during the measurement year.
The Knee Arthroplasty cost measure evaluates clinicians’ risk-adjusted cost to Medicare for beneficiaries who receive this procedure. The cost measure score is a clinician’s average risk-adjusted cost for the episode group averaged across all episodes attributed to the clinician. This procedural measure includes costs of services that are clinically related to the attributed clinician’s role in managing care during the 30 days prior to the clinical event that opens or ‘triggers’ the episode, through 90 days after the trigger.
Admissions for any-listed diagnosis of diabetes and any-listed procedure of lower-extremity amputation (except toe amputations) per 100,000 population, ages 18 years and older. Excludes any-listed diagnosis of traumatic lower-extremity amputation admissions, obstetric admissions, and transfers from other institutions.
[NOTE: The software provides the rate per population. However, common practice reports the measure as per 100,000 population. The user must multiply the rate obtained from the software by 100,000 to report admissions per 100,000 population.]
Percentage of patient months for patients on maintenance hemodialysis during the last HD treatment of month using an autogenous AV fistula.
This measure calculates the median time from emergency department arrival to time of transfer to another facility for acute coronary intervention.
This measure assesses the actual quality of the medication reconciliation process by identifying errors in admission and discharge medication orders due to problems with the medication reconciliation process. The target population is any hospitalized adult patient. The time frame is the hospitalization period.
The percentage of children and adolescents 1-17 years of age who had two or more antipsychotic prescriptions and had metabolic testing.