• Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010618
  • 2015 Oct

Antibiotic utilization: summary of outpatient utilization of antibiotic prescriptions during the measurement year, stratified by age and gender.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010578
  • 2015 Oct

Call answer timeliness: percentage of calls received by the organization's Member Services call centers (during operating hours) during the measurement year that were answered by a live voice within 30 seconds.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:007610
  • 2016 Mar

Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient improved in ability to transfer on/off and to/from the toilet.

Center for Health Services Research, University of Colorado, under contract to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010167
  • 2015 Oct
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Heart failure (HF): hospital-level, risk-standardized payment associated with a 30-day episode of care for HF.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Yale-New Haven Health Services Corporation/Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation under contract to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010629
  • 2015 Oct

Hypertension: the relative resource use by members with hypertension during the measurement year.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010428
  • 2016 Jan
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): median time to transfer to another facility for acute coronary intervention.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010161
  • 2015 Oct
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Unplanned readmission: hospital-wide all-cause, unplanned readmission rate (HWR).

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Yale-New Haven Health Services Corporation/Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation under contract to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010522
  • 2015 Oct
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Comprehensive diabetes care: percentage of members 18 to 75 years of age with diabetes (type 1 and type 2) whose most recent hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) level is less than 8.0% (controlled).

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:007630
  • 2016 Mar

Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's ability to prepare light meals improved or stayed the same as at admission.

Center for Health Services Research, University of Colorado, under contract to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:009345
  • 2016 Mar
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Home health care: percentage of home health stays in which patients used the emergency department but were not admitted to the hospital during the 60 days following the start of the home health stay.

Acumen LLC, under contract to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010560
  • 2015 Oct
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Osteoporosis testing in older women: the percentage of Medicare women 65 to 85 years of age who report ever having received a bone density test to check for osteoporosis.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010900
  • 2016 May
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Hospice experience: percentage of caregivers who reported that they got emotional and religious support on the CAHPS Hospice Survey.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; RAND Corporation

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010528
  • 2015 Oct

Statin therapy for patients with diabetes: percentage of members 40 to 75 years of age during the measurement year with diabetes who do not have ASCVD who remained on a statin medication of any intensity for at least 80% of the treatment period.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010615
  • 2015 Oct

Inpatient utilization—general hospital/acute care: summary of utilization of acute inpatient care and services in the following categories: Total Inpatient, Maternity, Surgery, and Medicine.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:009257
  • 2015 Jul

Drug-drug interactions: percentage of patients who received a prescription for a target medication during the measurement period and who were dispensed a concurrent prescription for a precipitant medication.

Pharmacy Quality Alliance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:007613
  • 2016 Mar
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's frequency of pain when moving around improved.

Center for Health Services Research, University of Colorado, under contract to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:007607
  • 2016 Mar

Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient improved in ability to groom themselves.

Center for Health Services Research, University of Colorado, under contract to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010431
  • 2016 Jan
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Emergency department (ED): median time from ED arrival to ED departure for discharged ED patients.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:007627
  • 2016 Mar

Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's ability to bathe improved or stayed the same as at admission.

Center for Health Services Research, University of Colorado, under contract to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010542
  • 2015 Oct
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Annual monitoring for patients on persistent medications: percentage of members 18 years of age and older who received at least 180 treatment days of ambulatory medication therapy for a select therapeutic agent during the measurement year and at least one therapeutic monitoring event for the therapeutic agent in the measurement year.

National Committee for Quality Assurance