Thank you for your inquiry regarding CMS50v13 Closing the Referral Loop: Receipt of Specialist Report. The referral does not need to be to a specific clinician to fulfill the referral criteria that creates the initial population/ denominator. However, to meet the numerator requirement for consultant report and pass the measure, the communication received must be associated with the initial referral. Please let us know if you have any further questions.

I need to know what the applicable specialties for the practice to send out referrals. We don't have the list of applicable specialties on any document or even on healthit.ecqi.com website. Please help us with the CMS 50 applicable or eligible referrals specialties.