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Measure CMS 68 Documentation of Current Medications in the Medical Record

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    • Luisa Enriquez Palma
    • 713-486-7837
    • UTHealth Houston
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      ​Thank you for your question about CMS68v12: Documentation of Current Medications in the Medical Record. The "Encounter to Document Medications" (2.16.840.1.113883.3.600.1.1834) value set (available on the VSAC website https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov) includes codes that identify qualifying encounters that would meet denominator criteria, including CPT codes for care in an inpatient setting. As noted in the measure specifications, all qualifying encounters found in an eligible clinician’s EHR are included in the measure.
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      ​Thank you for your question about CMS68v12: Documentation of Current Medications in the Medical Record. The "Encounter to Document Medications" (2.16.840.1.113883.3.600.1.1834) value set (available on the VSAC website https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov) includes codes that identify qualifying encounters that would meet denominator criteria, including CPT codes for care in an inpatient setting. As noted in the measure specifications, all qualifying encounters found in an eligible clinician’s EHR are included in the measure.
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      Negative impact to our clinicians that see patients in hospital with different EMR since our EMR does not capture documentation for hospital encounters just billing.
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      Negative impact to our clinicians that see patients in hospital with different EMR since our EMR does not capture documentation for hospital encounters just billing.

      our doctors practice in hospitals where EMR is different than the outpatient/ambulatory EMR. Our current EMR has a value set of CPT codes that belongs to the CMS68; however, inpatient encounters (encounters that happens at the hospital and are documented in a different EMR that our providers use for billing and outpatient/ambulatory settings) are being counted in the ambulatory setting since they are part of the value setting. Is it possible that those inpatient encounters be excluded since our doctors are not documenting any inpatient encounter in the EMR that we are using to send the measure??

            edave Mathematica EC eCQM Team
            lenriquezpalm Luisa Maria Enriquez Palma
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