CHIRP Program 4

• ⇅ PIPE Instructions for Medical Groups Participating in CHIRP

  Wednesday, April 3, 2024

• ⇅ CHIRP Provider to Payer Resources

  Updated: Thursday, April 25, 2024

• ⇅ CHIRP Provider Agreement Addendum

  Updated: Wednesday, November 8, 2023

• ⇅ CHIRP FAQ for Providers

  Updated: Monday, October 16, 2023

MNCM Status Page 1

• ⇅ MNCM Status Page

  Updated: Monday, June 26, 2023

Clinic and Provider Registration (Resources) 3

Resources for annual clinic and provider registration

• ⇅ Data Submission Planning Calendar

  Updated: Friday, December 13, 2024

• ⇅ Clinic and Provider Registration Guide and Provider Registration Template

  Updated: Friday, December 13, 2024 registration

• ⇅ Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Calculation Tool

  Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2024 registration fte full time equivalent provider registration

Clinic and Provider Registration (FAQs) 11

Answers to common questions about annual clinic and provider registration.

• ⇅ Which clinics need to register?

  Updated: Tuesday, November 30, 2021

• ⇅ Should we include providers who were employed for a only portion of the year?

  Updated: Saturday, October 30, 2021

• ⇅ Should the provider FTE reflect clinic time with patients? Or, should it reflect both clinic time and time spent in other administrative roles?

  Updated: Saturday, October 30, 2021

• ⇅ Our medical group closed one or more clinics during the year and providers were absorbed into other existing clinics. How do we record the provider FTEs in the provider registration file?

  Updated: Saturday, October 30, 2021

• ⇅ Is a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) required to be registered? 

  Updated: Saturday, October 30, 2021

PIPE Medical Group Onboarding 13

This category is for questions related to PIPE (Process Intelligence Performance Engine).

• ⇅ MNCM PIPE Onboarding Office Hours

  Updated: Monday, July 22, 2024

• ⇅ MNCM's February 2024 Webinar Recording

  Updated: Friday, March 1, 2024

• ⇅ Welcome to the PIPE Onboarding Page!

  Updated: Thursday, July 3, 2025 pipe onboarding readiness

• ⇅ Milestone 1 - Pre-Implementation Tasks

  Updated: Thursday, July 3, 2025 onboarding pre-implemenation milestone 1

• ⇅ Milestone 2A - Query and Data File Format (First File Set)

  Updated: Friday, May 19, 2023

PIPE Medical Group Guides & Specs 15

• ⇅ PIPE Data Submission Certification Survey Questions

  Updated: Monday, December 16, 2024 data submission pipe certification pre-submission

• ⇅ PIPE Data File Field Specifications

  Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025 data submission pipe pipe data file field specifications

• ⇅ PIPE ALL Measure Specifications

  Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2024

• ⇅ PIPE Data Submission Instructions for Medical Groups

  Updated: Tuesday, August 8, 2023

• ⇅ PIPE Measure Calculation Instructions

  Updated: Friday, January 10, 2025

PIPE Medical Group Instructional Videos 12

• ⇅ Completing Annual Registration

  Monday, July 24, 2023

• ⇅ General PIPE Sandbox and Production Portal Walkthrough

  Updated: Friday, May 5, 2023

• ⇅ Onboarding Readiness Assessment Video

  Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2024

• ⇅ PIPE Onboarding Milestones and Timeline

  Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2024

• ⇅ PIPE Onboarding Patient Level Validation

  Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2024

PIPE Medical Group FAQ 15

• ⇅ Urgent Care and Measure Denominator Inclusion

  Tuesday, June 17, 2025 urgent care denominator inclusion

• ⇅ PIPE Submissions: What data from outside clinics/facilities should be included?

  Updated: Monday, June 17, 2024

• ⇅ PIPE Onboarding Tips

  Updated: Monday, December 4, 2023

• ⇅ How to open text file as excel

  Tuesday, June 20, 2023

• ⇅ 2019 Total Knee Replacement Appendices

  Monday, January 23, 2023

PIPE Payer Onboarding 3

• ⇅ Welcome to the PIPE Onboarding for Payers Page!

  Updated: Friday, April 21, 2023

• ⇅ Payer PIPE Assessment and Readiness Confirmation

  Updated: Friday, April 21, 2023

• ⇅ PIPE Onboarding Work Plan for Payers

  Updated: Wednesday, January 17, 2024

PIPE Payer Guides & File Field Specifications 2

• ⇅ PIPE Enrollment Data File Field Specifications for Health Plan Member Verification

  Updated: Thursday, October 12, 2023 chirp health plan member verification pipe data file field specifications match attach

• ⇅ PIPE Data Submission Instructions for Health Plans

  Tuesday, August 8, 2023

PIPE Payer FAQ 6

• ⇅ The match and attach process was only done once a year. How often are you expecting this file to be sent?

  Updated: Monday, December 18, 2023

• ⇅ What enrollment span are you expecting for this list? (Historical and Incremental Files)

  Updated: Monday, December 18, 2023

• ⇅ What states should members be included from?

  Updated: Monday, December 18, 2023

• ⇅ FAQ: How can we submit enrollment changes if we do not have an efficient way to identify and manage enrollment changes month by month?

  Updated: Monday, December 18, 2023

• ⇅ FAQ: How do we submit retroactive changes that we identify after a monthly submission?

  Updated: Monday, December 18, 2023

Technical Questions 4

This category is for technical questions related to the MNCM Data Portal and other technical questions.

• ⇅ Subscribe/Unsubscribe to PIPE Notification Emails in Your Account!

  Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025 email pipe pipe email unsubscribe

• ⇅ Steps to clear out saved passwords

  Updated: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 password data portal

• ⇅ Steps to whitelist MNCM in email system

  Updated: Thursday, October 22, 2020 password email whitelist outlook safe senders request new password mncm portal safe senders list spam/junk folders log-in screen

• ⇅ Steps for saving an excel file as a csv file

  Updated: Wednesday, February 2, 2022

General Measure Questions 4

This category is for questions related to MNCM clinical measures.

• ⇅ E-Cigarettes 

  Updated: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 tobacco e-cig e-cigarette electronic nicotine delivery systems ends smoking smoke cessation

• ⇅ Risk Adjustment: How is the expected rate calculated? 

  Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 risk adjustment expected rate

• ⇅ When will the Value Sets be available for the next report year?

  Updated: Thursday, February 2, 2023

• ⇅ Which Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) tools obtained outside of a face-to-face office visits can be submitted?

  Updated: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 spine surgery crc depression amh adolescent mental health tkr pro tools orthopedic ortho depression care measures spine adolescent

HEDIS Questions 6

This category is for questions related to HEDIS measures.

• ⇅ SS&C Health / Credo / ChartFast: Chart Review Vendor for DHS/MNCM Health Care Disparities Report

  Thursday, April 24, 2025 hedis chartfast chart fast credo ss&c ss&c health chart request health care disparities report

• ⇅ HEDIS Measure Specifications

  Updated: Thursday, May 4, 2023 hedis specifications hedis measure

• ⇅ HEDIS: Are there clinic level results?

  Thursday, May 4, 2023 clinic hedis

• ⇅ HEDIS: Patient Eligibility, Medical Group Attribution & Reportability Thresholds, and Hybrid Measure Sampling

  Updated: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 hedis reportable

• ⇅ Guardian Angel Consulting

  Updated: Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Orthopedic Measures 6

This category is for questions related to the Total Knee Replacement, Spine Fusion: Disc-Laminotomy and Spine Surgery: Fusion clinical quality measures.

• ⇅ Spine Surgery PRO Tool: Visual Analog Pain Scale

  Updated: Friday, August 11, 2023

• ⇅ Bilateral Total Knee Replacement Guidance

  Updated: Tuesday, August 1, 2023

• ⇅ Orthopedic/Neurosurgery Measures | Updated 2025

  Updated: Thursday, August 28, 2025 total knee replacement fusion tkr lumbar lumbar fusion lumbar discectomy laminectomy disc lami

• ⇅ PIPE Supplemental Guide: Orthopedic Measure Calculations and Value Set

  Updated: Friday, May 17, 2024 orthopedic pipe

• ⇅ Total Knee Replacement PRO tools

  Updated: Thursday, February 2, 2023

Oncology Measures 3

This category is for questions related to the oncology clinical quality measure suite.

• ⇅ Instructions for Obtaining PRO-CTCAE

  Updated: Thursday, March 24, 2022

• ⇅ Oncology Measures - Symptom Control During Chemotherapy | Updated 2025

  Updated: Thursday, August 28, 2025 cancer symptom control during chemotherapy chemotherapy oncology

• ⇅ PRO-CTCAE tool links archive

  Updated: Thursday, March 24, 2022 cancer symptom control during chemotherapy symptom scdc

Final Clinical Quality Measure Results 2

Password protected files available for review and comment as part of the data submission and validation process.

• ⇅ Final Statewide Measure Results

  Updated: Friday, September 5, 2025 measures results hedis public reporting quality report public reports utilization cost hedis measure reports measure results tcoc

• ⇅ MNCM Launches the Performance Hub

  Updated: Friday, September 5, 2025 results hedis public reporting quality report public reports utilization cost hedis measure reports measure results

IT Support Requests 1

• ⇅ User Account Requests and Changes

  Updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2025 pipe user account account user access sandbox secure portal upload portal

Security Policies 1

• ⇅ MNCM Trust Center

  Tuesday, March 18, 2025 security compliance soc2 hipaa network security data security risk vulnerability confidentiality