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CMS136:Need understanding on overlap data consideration

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    • Mangala Mayekar
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      Thank you for your question. According to the QDM, Cumulative medication duration should be calculated as the number of doses in the interval of interest, divided by the doses per day. In addition, you cannot count a single calendar day more than once. So, in your example, the patient is on the medication for only 21 unique days (October 10 - 20, and October 20-30).
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      Thank you for your question. According to the QDM, Cumulative medication duration should be calculated as the number of doses in the interval of interest, divided by the doses per day. In addition, you cannot count a single calendar day more than once. So, in your example, the patient is on the medication for only 21 unique days (October 10 - 20, and October 20-30).
    • CMS136v4/NQF0108
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      Document states

      Initial Patient Population 2 :

      OR: "Occurrence A of Medication, Active: ADHD Medications (cumulative medication duration >= 210 day(s))" starts after start of "Occurrence A of Medication, Dispensed: ADHD Medications"
      OR: "Occurrence A of Medication, Active: ADHD Medications (cumulative medication duration >= 210 day(s))" starts concurrent with "Occurrence A of Medication, Dispensed: ADHD Medications

      Scenario:If a patient has Medication, Active with overlapping dates ie 1)Medication Active startdate 10th October and Enddate as 20th October
      2)Medication Active startdate 15th October and Enddate as 30th October

      then do we need to consider both the above medications for cumulative duration calculation?

      Above query is related to CMS128 and other EP measures too.

      Kindly suggest.

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