 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation – Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) to develop a quality measure to assess preventative screenings for cancers where there are known disparities in preventive care such as colorectal cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, and lung cancer. The measure will assess the quality of care provided by clinicians who are eligible to participate under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and will use data collected from patients. As part of the measure development process, CORE convenes groups of stakeholders and experts who contribute direction and thoughtful input during measure development. CORE is currently recruiting for two stakeholder groups to provide input on the measure's development: 1) Technical Expert Panel (TEP) and 2) Clinician Committee. We will ask members of both groups to review materials and provide input to help shape the measure, such as the design of the patient survey instrument to collect patient data, data collection methodologies, and risk adjustment. Given your expertise and/or the expertise/mission of your organization, we invite you to nominate yourself or individuals who might be interested in participating in our TEP and/or Clinician Committee. Instructions for submitting a nomination are below. For detailed information about this project and nominee requirements, please refer to the project posting on CMS's webpage: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/MMS/TEP-Currently-Accepting-Nominations - For the TEP, we are seeking individuals with differing perspectives and areas of expertise including but not limited to physicians and other clinicians who provide preventive care services for cancers included in the measure, health disparities experts, psychometricians, healthcare consumers, patients, caregivers, and quality measurement experts. Persons selected to serve on the TEP will represent themselves and not their organizations.
- For the Clinician Committee, we are seeking professional/specialty society representatives, as well as front-line clinicians (particularly those in rural and/or underserved communities) who provide preventive services for cancers included in the measure, provide counseling to cancer patients, or treat cancer patients. Individuals selected to the Clinician Committee may serve as representatives of their organization.
Expected Time Commitment: The TEP and Clinician Committee will meet separately. CORE anticipates holding approximately three to five webinar meetings with each group between April 2022 and September 2024. Instructions for Submitting a Nomination If you or someone you know with relevant expertise would like to participate on the TEP, Clinician Committee, or both, please: If you are unable to complete the online form, you may email your completed Nomination Form, letter of interest, and CV to CMSMIPSScreeningPROPM@yale.edu. Once the nomination process is complete, CORE will select a TEP composed of approximately 15-18 individuals and a Clinician Committee of approximately 8-12 individuals based on the areas of expertise and the specific requirements of the measure. Please contact CORE at CMSMIPSScreeningPROPM@yale.edu should you have any questions. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) invites vendors and stakeholders to review and provide feedback on draft electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) specifications that include logic and header changes for eCQMs under consideration for CMS quality reporting and payment programs. This opportunity will allow CMS to learn from Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors who have the technical capabilities to review the draft measures in the Clinical Quality Language (CQL) standard for logic expression and test the Health Quality Measures Format (HQMF) code by directly consuming machine readable XML files for eCQMs. Testing will help CMS to identify instances in which the XML code produces errors so that issues can be resolved prior to posting the fully specified measures in spring 2021. The draft measures in HTML, XML, and JSON formats are available February 7, 2022 through February 18, 2022, on the ONC Project Tracking System (JIRA) eCQM Issue Tracker via the following tickets: - CQM-5135: Annual Update for the 2023 Reporting Period: Draft Preview of Eligible Hospital and Critical Access Hospital eCQMs
- CQM-5136: Annual Update for the 2023 Performance Period: Draft Preview of Eligible Clinician eCQMs
Please report questions and comments regarding the draft measure packages to the eCQM Issue Tracker tickets listed above. The updated eCQMs will be available on the eCQI Resource Center in spring 2022. The measures will be expressed using CQL logic and will continue to use the Quality Data Model (QDM) as the conceptual model to express clinical concepts contained within quality measures. Refer to the QDM v5.6 and current version of the CQL standard to better understand how they work together to provide eCQMs that are human readable, yet structured for electronic processing. Measures will not be eligible for 2023 reporting unless and until they are proposed and finalized through notice-and-comment rulemaking for each applicable program. For More Information To find out more about eCQMs and CQL, visit the eCQI Resource Center. | 
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