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    • Type: Hosp Inpt eCQMs - Hospital Inpatient eCQMs
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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 hospice level of service within the same facility should be excluded from the measure. eCQMs are not able to differentiate patients based upon level of service. We encourage you to work with your EHR vendor to ensure the appropriate patients are excluded from the denominator.
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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 hospice level of service within the same facility should be excluded from the measure. eCQMs are not able to differentiate patients based upon level of service. We encourage you to work with your EHR vendor to ensure the appropriate patients are excluded from the denominator.
    • CMS0506v7
    • Hospice Inpatient 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 the ability to provide Hospice General Inpatient Care (GIP).  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 a Hospice Inpatient 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 Hospice (GIP) Inpatient encounters be included in the eCQM population for "Inpatient Encounters"?  

            Assignee:
            Augustine Weber
            Reporter:
            jaime zirkle
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