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Hybrid hospital 30-day, all-cause, risk-standardized mortality rate (RSMR) following acute myocardial infarction (AMI)

  • This measure estimates a hospital-level 30-day, all-cause, risk-standardized mortality rate (RSMR) for patients discharged from the hospital with a principal discharge diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The outcome is all-cause 30-day mortality, defined as death from any cause within 30 days of the index admission date, including in-hospital death, for AMI patients. The target population is Medicare Fee-for-Service beneficiaries who are 65 years or older.

    CBE ID
    2473e

Hybrid Hospital‐Wide (All‐Condition, All‐Procedure) Risk‐Standardized Mortality Measure with Claims and Electronic Health Record Data

  • Hybrid Hospital-Wide (All-Condition, All-Procedure) Risk-Standardized Mortality Measure with Claims and Electronic Health Record Data measure estimates a hospital-level 30-day risk-standardized mortality rate (RSMR), defined as death from any cause within 30 days after the index admission date for Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage patients who are between the ages of 65 and 94. 

    CBE ID
    3502e

Inappropriately Broad Empiric Antibiotic Selection for Adult Hospitalized Patients with Uncomplicated Community-Acquired Pneumonia

  • The Inappropriately Broad Empiric Antibiotic Selection for Adult Hospitalized Patients with Uncomplicated Pneumonia measure is a process measure representing the annual percentage of hospitalized adults with uncomplicated community-acquired pneumonia. Here, we defined “inappropriately broad” as any antibiotic therapy targeting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or Pseudomonas aeruginosa in patients without risk factors for one of those organisms.

    CBE ID
    4545e

Kidney Health Evaluation

  • Percentage of patients aged 18-85 years with a diagnosis of diabetes who received a kidney health evaluation defined by an Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) AND Urine Albumin-Creatinine Ratio (uACR) within the 12-month measurement period

    CBE ID
    4315e

MI - Use of Beta Blocker Therapy

  • The percentage of patients aged 18 years and older diagnosed with myocardial infarction (MI) who are taking a beta blocker

    CBE ID
    0613e

Oncology: Medical and Radiation – Pain Intensity Quantified

  • This measure looks at the percentage of patient visits, regardless of patient age, with a diagnosis of cancer currently receiving chemotherapy or radiation therapy in which pain intensity is quantified.

     

    This eCQM is an episode-based measure. An episode is defined as each eligible encounter for patients with a diagnosis of cancer who are also currently receiving chemotherapy or radiation therapy during the measurement period. 

     

    CBE ID
    0384e

One-Time Screening for Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) for Patients at Risk

  • Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older with one or more of the following: a history of injection drug use, receipt of a blood transfusion prior to 1992, receiving maintenance hemodialysis, OR birthdate in the years 1945–1965 who received one-time screening for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection

    CBE ID
    3059e

PC-01 Elective Delivery

  • This measure assesses patients with elective vaginal deliveries or elective cesarean births at >= 37 and < 39 weeks of gestation completed. This measure is part of a set of four nationally implemented measures that address perinatal care (PC-01: Elective Delivery, ePC-01: Elective Delivery; PC-02: Cesarean Birth, ePC-02: Cesarean Birth will be added as an eCQM 1/1/2020; PC-05: Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding, ePC-05: Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding; PC-06 Unexpected Complications in Term Newborns was added 1/1/2019).

    CBE ID
    0469e