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12.16.2012 General Guidelines Some cells in the HEDIS 2013 Pharmacy Standard Pricing Table (SPT-Pharm) include dashes (-) instead of prices. Are the dashes equivalent to $0.00?
12.16.2012 Guidelines for Relative Resource Use Measures The table under step 9 on page 350 of the HEDIS 2013 Volume 2 should be used when assigning members to a RRU risk group. This year, the final risk score is rounded to 4 decimal places. In the table, Risk Group 1 is between 0.0000 and 0.2490. Risk Group 2 is between 0.2500 and 0.4990. To which risk group should a member be assigned whose risk score is 0.2495? The score does not fall in either group.
11.16.2012 Medication Reconciliation Post-Discharge If a member's discharge is followed by a readmission or direct transfer to a nursing home or long term care facility, is the discharge included in the measure's denominator?
If there is evidence that the member remained in the nursing home or long-term care facility through December 1 of the measurement year, the discharge must be excluded from the denominator. If there is evidence that the member was discharged from the nursing home or long term care facility by December 1 of the measurement year, the discharge must be included in the denominator. Organizations may not assume that the member remained in a nursing home or long-term care facility through the end of the measurement year, based solely on the discharge status; there must be a method for identifying the members status for the remainder of the measurement year.
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11.16.2012 Care for Older Adults May a yes/no checklist be used for the advance care planning indicator?
11.16.2012 Cardiovascular Monitoring for People With Cardiovascular Disease and Schizophrenia The CMC event/diagnosis criteria were revised in the Volume 2 Technical Update to include both facility and professional claims when identifying an AMI or CABG event. Should both facility and professional claims be included when identifying AMI or CABG for the SMC measure?
11.16.2012 Cardiovascular Monitoring for People With Cardiovascular Disease and Schizophrenia In the Volume 2 Technical Update, the Continuous Enrollment criteria were revised to read "the measurement year and the year prior to the measurement year." Should the Allowable Gap criteria also include the year prior to the measurement year?
11.16.2012 General Guidelines If a member was included in the denominator because of inaccurate claims data, may we remove the member from the measure? How do we do this?
Members who are in the denominator because of inaccurate claims data may meet the criteria for a valid data error. Valid data errors are identified only for hybrid measures during medical record review. If a member is in the denominator because of a claim with a code specified for the measure, the medical record must contain evidence that the member does not meet measure criteria; a silent chart is not evidence that the member does not have the condition being measured. If the valid data error criteria are met, the member should be removed from the sample and replaced with a member from the oversample.
Finding valid data errors is not intended to be a method of correcting improper billing practices, and they cannot be identified through supplemental data. Additional information and examples of valid data errors can be found in the Substituting Medical Records in the Guidelines for Calculations and Sampling (page 51).
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11.16.2012 Race/Ethnicity Diversity of Membership The note below table RDM-C-1/2/3 indicates that the "Unknown" category includes only members for whom the organization has not sought direct or indirect race/ethnicity information. If an organization sought this information but could not obtain it from the member, is this included in the "Unknown" category?
Yes. The Unknown category should be used in cases when the organization did not obtain race/ethnicity information using the direct or indirect data collection method or did not receive a "Decline" response. If the plan attempted to collect the information and the member gave a "Decline" response, the member is counted in the Direct Data Collection percentages (because the plan asked about the members race/ethnicity and received a response). The plan receives credit for attempting to collect the information, even though the member refused to provide it.
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11.16.2012 Use of High-Risk Medications in the Elderly When calculating the Average Daily Dose for medications in Table DAE-C, should organizations use rounding rules before comparing the dose to the specified threshold? How should organizations calculate average daily dose for elixirs and concentrates?
11.16.2012 Weight Assessment and Counseling for Nutrition and Physical Activity for Children/Adolescents For the Counseling for Nutrition and Counseling for Physical Activity indicators, do educational materials sent to members via mail or e-mail count toward the numerators?
No. The intent of the measure is to identify instances where a member received counseling for nutrition and physical activity; therefore, educational materials sent via mail or e-mail do not indicate that counseling occurred. The intent of including "member received educational materials" in the measure specifications is to allow for occasions where a provider gave educational materials to a patient during a face-to-face visit.
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10.16.2012 Comprehensive Diabetes Care Can CPT Category II code 4010F be used to identify ACE inhibitor/ARB therapy for the Medical Attention for Nephropathy indicator?
Yes, CPT Category II code 4010F (Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor or Angiotensin Receptor Blocker (ARB) therapy prescribed or currently being taken) can be used to identify ACE inhibitor/ARB therapy (Table CDC-K) for the Medical Attention for Nephropathy indicator for HEDIS 2014 reporting.
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10.16.2012 General Guidelines What is the difference between "required" exclusions and "optional" exclusions?
Required exclusions identify members who must be excluded from the measure, regardless of numerator compliance. They are listed as part of the eligible population criteria because members who meet the required exclusion criteria are removed when identifying the denominator of the measure. Optional exclusions should only be used to remove members that did not meet the measure's numerator criteria. Organizations may choose to apply optional exclusions, which are listed separately at the end of the measure specification, or may choose not to apply the exclusions.
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