Imaging efficiency: percentage of MRI of the lumbar spine studies with a diagnosis of low back pain on the imaging claim and for which the patient did not have prior claims-based evidence of antecedent conservative therapy.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Ambulatory/Office-based Care, Ambulatory Procedure/Imaging Center, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Imaging efficiency: percentage of thorax CT studies that are performed with and without contrast out of all thorax CT studies performed.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Ambulatory/Office-based Care, Ambulatory Procedure/Imaging Center, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Imaging efficiency: percentage of brain CT studies with a simultaneous sinus CT.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Ambulatory/Office-based Care, Ambulatory Procedure/Imaging Center, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Imaging efficiency: percentage of stress echocardiography, SPECT MPI, stress MRI, or CCTA studies performed at a hospital outpatient facility in the 30 days prior to an ambulatory low-risk, non-cardiac surgery performed anywhere.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Ambulatory/Office-based Care, Ambulatory Procedure/Imaging Center, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Imaging efficiency: percentage of stress echocardiography, SPECT MPI, or stress MRI studies performed at a hospital outpatient facility in the 30 days prior to an ambulatory low-risk, non-cardiac surgery performed anywhere.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Ambulatory/Office-based Care, Ambulatory Procedure/Imaging Center, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Imaging efficiency: percentage of brain CT studies with a simultaneous sinus CT.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Ambulatory/Office-based Care, Ambulatory Procedure/Imaging Center, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Imaging efficiency: percentage of abdomen CT studies that are performed with and without contrast out of all abdomen CT studies performed.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Ambulatory/Office-based Care, Ambulatory Procedure/Imaging Center, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Imaging efficiency: percentage of patients with mammography screening studies that are followed by a diagnostic mammography, ultrasound or MRI of the breast in an outpatient or office setting within 45 days.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Ambulatory/Office-based Care, Ambulatory Procedure/Imaging Center, Hospital Outpatient, Transition
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Imaging efficiency: percentage of MRI of the lumbar spine studies with a diagnosis of low back pain on the imaging claim and for which the patient did not have prior claims-based evidence of antecedent conservative therapy.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Ambulatory/Office-based Care, Ambulatory Procedure/Imaging Center, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Emergency department (ED)-throughput: median time from ED arrival to provider contact for ED patients.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Emergency Department, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): median time from ED arrival to administration of fibrinolytic therapy in ED patients with ST-segment elevation on the ECG performed closest to ED arrival and prior to transfer.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Emergency Department, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI)/chest pain: percentage of ED AMI patients or chest pain patients who received aspirin within 24 hours before ED arrival or prior to transfer.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Emergency Department, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI)/chest pain: median time from ED arrival to ECG (performed in the ED prior to transfer) for AMI or chest pain patients.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Emergency Department, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Stroke: percentage of ED acute ischemic stroke or hemorrhagic stroke patients who arrive at the ED within 2 hours of the onset of symptoms who have a head CT or MRI scan performed during the stay and having a time from ED arrival to interpretation of the head CT or MRI scan within 45 minutes of arrival.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Emergency Department, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Pain management: median time from ED arrival to time of initial oral, intranasal or parenteral pain medication administration for ED patients with a principal diagnosis of long bone fracture.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Emergency Department, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Emergency department (ED)-throughput: median time from ED arrival to time of departure from the ED for patients discharged from the ED.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Emergency Department, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): percentage of ED patients with AMI and ST-segment elevation on the ECG closest to arrival time receiving fibrinolytic therapy during the ED stay and having a time from ED arrival to fibrinolysis of 30 minutes or less.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Emergency Department, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): median time to transfer to another facility for acute coronary intervention.
- Published By Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Measurement Settings Emergency Department, Hospital Outpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): hospital 30-day, all-cause, risk-standardized mortality rate (RSMR) following AMI hospitalization.
- Published By 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
- Measurement Settings Hospital Inpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): hospital 30-day, all-cause, unplanned risk-standardized readmission rate (RSRR) following AMI hospitalization.
- Published By 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
- Measurement Settings Hospital Inpatient
- Professionals Involved In the Delivery of Service