MU Stage1 Final Rule - Report Quality Measures (EP)

SECTION # Section 170.302(i)—Report Quality Measures

MU OBJECTIVE Eligible Professionals: Report ambulatory clinical quality measures to CMS or the States. Eligible Hospitals and CAHs: Report hospital clinical quality measures to CMS or the States.

MU STAGE 1 MEASURE For 2011, provide aggregate numerator, denominator, and exclusions through attestation as discussed in section II(A)(3) of [the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs final rule]. For 2012, electronically submit the clinical quality measures as disc

CERTIFICATION CRITERION Final Rule Text: §170.304(j). (1) Calculate. (i) Electronically calculate all of the core clinical measures specified by CMS for eligible professionals. (ii) Electronically calculate, at a minimum, three clinical quality measures specified by CMS for eligible professionals, in addition to those clinical quality measures specified in paragraph (1)(i). (2) Submission. Enable a user to electronically submit calculated clinical quality measures in accordance with the standard and implementation specifications specified in §170.205(f).

STANDARDS §170.205(f)

TEST CRITERIA # §170.304 (j) http://healthcare.nist.gov/docs/170.304.j_CalcSubmitClinQualityMeasures_v1.0.pdf

USERS	CORE / MENU	SOLUTION DEVELOPERS	STATUS
EP	CORE	WorldVistA, et al	In development

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PREVIOUS NOTES Table 2A row 5 specifies that the criteria for PQRI be used. For submitting this for the ambulatory setting, and EHR may use the standard billing submission with addtional codes that are not yet part of VistA. In addition, there are 175 baseline quality m

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