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Thank you for your question. If a patient receiving inpatient care through a given approved hospital at home program meets a measures’ inclusion criteria, they should be included in the respective measure.

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Thank you for your question. If a patient receiving inpatient care through a given approved hospital at home program meets a measures’ inclusion criteria, they should be included in the respective measure.
2021 Reporting Period EH/CAH eCQMs:

CMS71v10/NQFna, CMS104v9/NQFna, CMS105v9/NQFna
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Two hospitals within our health care system have started Acute Care at Home "units". These patients are treated and billed as Inpatients, though their care is in their home. For eCQMs, would we include these patients in our Initial Patient Population? Thanks.

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Two hospitals within our health care system have started Acute Care at Home "units". These patients are treated and billed as Inpatients, though their care is in their home. For eCQMs, would we include these patients in our Initial Patient Population? Thanks.

relates to

CQM-4961 Add guidance to include patients from Acute Hospital Care at Home programs in denominator