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EC eCQMs - Eligible Clinicians
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Resolution: Answered
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Moderate
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None
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None
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CMS0068v13
When a patient qualifies for the measure during an inpatient stay, it raises the question of whether each billed CPT code that qualifies should be counted as a separate encounter, necessitating medication reconciliation for each, or if the entire stay from admission to discharge should be considered a single encounter.
For instance, if a patient is admitted on January 9th and discharged on January 13th, and each day a hospitalist sees the patient and drops a qualifying encounter code, should this be treated as five separate encounters or just one single encounter?