Unable to report more than one Inpatient value set OID      Several of our clients would like to submit the voluntary measure (Hybrid Hospital-Wide Readmission- CMS 0529v4), however, due to restrictions within the hospital electronic software the ‘inpatient’ field is limited to one inpatient type. Since the ‘Acute care hospital Inpatient’ (2.16.840.1.113883.3.666.5.2289) value set has no common codes when compared to the ‘Encounter Inpatient’ (2.16.840.1.113883.3.666.5.307) value set used in all EH eCQM’s, the ‘Hybrid Hospital-Wide Readmission’ measure will have zero patients reported.  We are looking for guidance on this issue. We would request harmonization with all eCQMs.

Thank you for your question. We encourage your hospitals to use the SNOMED codes from the 2.16.840.1.113883.3.666.5.307 when reporting the voluntary Hybrid readmission. We will review the use of inpatient encounter value sets with the next annual update cycle to ensure the hybrid specifications are in alignment.