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EC eCQMs - Eligible Clinicians
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Resolution: Answered
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CMS0127v11
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CMS 127 - Pneumococcal Vaccine for Older Adults: The 2022 logic specifies that only Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine 23 meet the measure. However, the measure description still reads as patients 66 and older are to receive one vaccine (no specified vaccine type). Are you aware that not including the other pneumococcal vaccines drastically reduces the providers' performance score? Will you consider changing the logic back to include the other vaccines to meet MIPS in 2022?
Additional points:
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on 10/20/21 recommended Prevnar-15 or Prevnar-20 for Prevnar-naïve adults aged >/= 65 years old or 19-64 with certain underlying conditions. When PCV15 is used it should be followed by PPSV23 >/=1 year later.
So, the updated ACIP guidelines indicate that many individuals >/= age 65 will not need PPSV23, so it does not make sense to create a metric focusing on PPSV23.
Here is the report in the CDC’s journal “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report” (MMWR) on 1/28/22
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104a1.htm?s_cid=mm7104a1_w