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OQR eCQMs
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Moderate
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CMS0996v4
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Outcomes are skewed due to STEMI patients transferred to a PCI-capable facility being evaluated for the eCQM when the measure definition reads - PCI within 90 minutes of ED arrival for NON-TRANSFERRED patients.
Patients are being evaluated twice for the STEMI eCQM sometimes with different outcomes. A patient arrives in a non-PCI-capable facility with a STEMI dx. The patient is transferred to a PCI-capable facility greater than 45 minutes after arrival landing them appropriately in the denominator. The patient arrives at the PCI-capable facility and undergoes a PCI within 90 minutes of arrival, putting them in the numerator for that encounter. The measure definition says PCI within 90 minutes of ED arrival for non-transferred patients. It seems as though the transferred patients should only be evaluated for this measure at the initial ED visit and not for their encounter at the PCI-capable facility. We are seeing many patients being evaluated twice.