We are a vendor for one of our business partners in the US who are qualified registry submitting PQRS 2014 data on behalf of their eligible professionals.

I have a very specific question with respect to the </pqrs-measure-details> tag in the PQRS 2014 Registry XML for Individual and Measure Groups. We received the following error (attached with this issue) when testing on the PQRS Portal (SEVT tool) - "</pqrs-measure-details> element tag must repeat by the number of performance rates for the measure as defined in the measure specification".

This tag - </pqrs-measure-details> appears only once for every measure in our XML file.

None of the measures we have opted for PQRS 2014 have different performance rates. Neither we could find any information in the measure specification that talks about different performance rates.

Individual measures:
PQRS #1: Diabetes: Hemoglobin A1c Poor Control (>9.0%)
PQRS #2: Diabetes: Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL-C) Control (<100mg/dL)
PQRS #110: Preventive Care and Screening: Influenza Immunization
PQRS #111: Pneumonia Vaccination Status for Older Adults
PQRS #121: Adult Kidney Disease: Laboratory Testing (Lipid Profile)
PQRS #122: Adult Kidney Disease: Blood Pressure Management
PQRS #123: Adult Kidney Disease: Patient on ESA Hemoglobin Level >12.0g/dL
PQRS #128: Preventative Care and Screening: Body Mass Index (BMI) Screening and Follow Up
PQRS #130: Documentation of Current Medications in the Medical Record
PQRS #226: Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention
PQRS #236: Controlling High Blood Pressure - Blood pressure controlled (< 140/90) in patients with hypertension
PQRS #317: Preventative Care and Screening: Screening for High Blood Pressure and Follow- Up Documented - for pre-hypertensive/hypertensive BP level (> 120/80)

Group measures: Please see above as these four measures are both as individual and group.
PQRS #110: Preventive Care and Screening: Influenza Immunization
PQRS #121: Adult Kidney Disease: Laboratory Testing (Lipid Profile)
PQRS #122: Adult Kidney Disease: Blood Pressure Management
PQRS #123: Adult Kidney Disease: Patient on ESA Hemoglobin Level >12.0g/dL

We are unable to proceed with testing the XML files for submission. This is critical for 2014 Registry submissions.

Any help on resolving this issue is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Kartik