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      Thank you for your question about the Safe Use of Opioids – Concurrent Prescribing eCQM, CMS506. Patients who are admitted to an inpatient encounter and subsequently transferred to a skilled nursing level of service within the same facility (swing beds) should not be included in the measure. eCQMs are not able to differentiate patients based upon level of service. We encourage you to work with your EHR vendor to remove these patients from the measure for purposes of reporting. We will look into ways to address this in a future version of the measure.
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      Thank you for your question about the Safe Use of Opioids – Concurrent Prescribing eCQM, CMS506. Patients who are admitted to an inpatient encounter and subsequently transferred to a skilled nursing level of service within the same facility (swing beds) should not be included in the measure. eCQMs are not able to differentiate patients based upon level of service. We encourage you to work with your EHR vendor to remove these patients from the measure for purposes of reporting. We will look into ways to address this in a future version of the measure.
    • CMS0506v7
    • Inpatient Swing Bed encounters pulling into eCQM population due to "Encounter, Performed: Encounter Inpatient"

      Almost all the Inpatient eCQMs use "Encounter, Performed: Encounter Inpatient" QDM Data Element.  We have acute care hospitals that also have designated swing beds.  Patients can be admitted/discharged as an acute inpatient and then stay in the say hospital and bed and have a new encounter and insurance claim as an Inpatient Swingbed patient class.  

      These patients are pulling into several of our eCQM patient populations due to the "base class" of the patient being Inpatient.  Should these Swing Bed Inpatient encounters be included in the eCQM population for "Inpatient Encounters"?  

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            Augustine Weber
            Reporter:
            jaime zirkle
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