Maintenance

The percentage of births with birthweight <2,500 grams

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

Percentage of patients who died from cancer receiving systemic cancer-directed therapy in the last 14 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).

Risk adjusted rate of intra and post procedure bleeding for all patients age 18 and over undergoing PCI.

Percentage of patient admissions for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedure

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