MN Community Measurement - Knowledge base

CHIRP Program (4 articles)

PIPE Instructions for Medical Groups Participating in CHIRP
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
CHIRP Provider to Payer Resources
Updated: Wednesday, November 8, 2023
CHIRP Provider Agreement Addendum
Updated: Wednesday, November 8, 2023
CHIRP FAQ for Providers
Updated: Monday, October 16, 2023

MNCM Status Page (1 articles)

MNCM Status Page
Updated: Monday, June 26, 2023

PIPE Medical Group Onboarding (13 articles)

MNCM PIPE Onboarding Office Hours Updated
Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2024
MNCM's February 2024 Webinar Recording
Updated: Friday, March 1, 2024
Welcome to the PIPE Onboarding Page!
Updated: Thursday, February 22, 2024
Milestone 1 - Pre-Implementation Tasks
Updated: Monday, May 22, 2023
Milestone 2A - Query and Data File Format (First File Set)
Updated: Friday, May 19, 2023

PIPE Medical Group Guides & Specs (12 articles)

Social Risk Factors
Updated: Thursday, February 15, 2024
NEW PIPE Data File Field Specifications v2.3
Updated: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 data submission pipe pipe data file field specifications
PIPE File Extract Guidance
Updated: Tuesday, November 1, 2022
PIPE Data Submission Instructions for Medical Groups
Updated: Tuesday, August 8, 2023
PIPE Sandbox Guide
Updated: Wednesday, December 28, 2022

PIPE Medical Group Videos (13 articles)

Completing Annual Registration
Monday, July 24, 2023
Readiness Assessment Video
Updated: Friday, May 5, 2023
PIPE Milestones and Timeline
Friday, May 5, 2023
PIPE File Extract Guide Walkthrough
Friday, May 5, 2023
Requesting New User Accounts for PIPE Sites
Friday, May 5, 2023

PIPE Medical Group FAQ (11 articles)

PIPE Data Submission Certification questions
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
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 Blood Pressure Appointment Type guidance
Updated: Wednesday, December 21, 2022

PIPE Payer Onboarding (3 articles)

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 articles)

PIPE Enrollment Data File Field Specifications for Health Plan Member Verification
Updated: Thursday, October 12, 2023 chirp health plan member verification match attach pipe data file field specifications
PIPE Data Submission Instructions for Health Plans
Tuesday, August 8, 2023

PIPE Payer FAQ (6 articles)

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

Clinic and Provider Registration (Resources) (6 articles)

Data Submission Planning Calendar
Updated: Monday, October 30, 2023
DDS Registration Instructions and Addendum
Updated: Monday, November 27, 2023
Provider Registration Template
Updated: Thursday, October 27, 2022
Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Calculation tool
Updated: Monday, October 30, 2023
Steps to update the provider registration file
Updated: Saturday, October 30, 2021

Clinic and Provider Registration (FAQs) (11 articles)

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

Direct Data Submission (DDS) Resources (20 articles)

DDS Presubmission Data Certification Forms
Monday, November 13, 2023
2023 Measurement Year Submission Deadlines (Reported in 2024)
Updated: Thursday, September 7, 2023
Adolescent Mental Health and/or Depression Screening Guides
Updated: Thursday, October 26, 2023
Optimal Asthma Control, Asthma Education & Self-Management DDS Guides
Updated: Thursday, October 26, 2023
Colorectal Cancer Screening Guides
Updated: Thursday, October 26, 2023

Technical Questions (6 articles)

Steps to clear out saved passwords
Updated: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 data portal password
How can I view/download my clinic's data that was submitted for a previous reporting period?
Monday, August 17, 2020 previous results technical dds portal
Steps to whitelist MNCM in email system
Updated: Thursday, October 22, 2020 email log-in screen mncm portal outlook password request new password safe senders safe senders list spam/junk folders whitelist
What numbers do I enter for "Number of Eligible Patients (exclusions removed)" and "Number of Patients Submitting"?
Tuesday, July 30, 2019 data submission
Steps for saving an excel file as a csv file
Updated: Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Preliminary Clinical Quality Measure Results (2 articles)

Preliminary 2023 MY Statewide Clinical Quality Measure Results for Medical Group Review until April 21st
Updated: Monday, March 25, 2024
Preliminary 2021 MY Depression Care Statewide Clinical Quality Measure Results for Medical Group Review
Updated: Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Preliminary HEDIS Performance Results (1 articles)

Preliminary HEDIS Measure Review
Updated: Friday, November 3, 2023 hedis preliminary two week review

Final Clinical Quality Measure Results (1 articles)

Preview 2022MY Risk Adjusted Final Clinical Quality Measures
Updated: Monday, October 23, 2023

Adolescent Mental Health /Depression Screening (4 articles)

Should all patients be included in the Adolescent Mental Health denominator if they had an eligible telehealth visit?
Updated: Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Adolescent Mental Health and/or Depression Screening: If a patient has multiple well-child visits during the measurement period, which should be submitted?
Updated: Thursday, September 30, 2021
Adolescent Mental Health and/or Depression Screening: Can mental health screening tool scores obtained outside of a face-to-face office visit be submitted?
Updated: Thursday, September 30, 2021
Adolescent Mental Health screening required exclusions time frame
Updated: Thursday, September 30, 2021

Asthma (9 articles)

Are the Asthma measures also a Health Care Home (HCH) measure?
Updated: Friday, July 10, 2020 asthma
Asthma PRO tool links
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 asthma optimal asthma control pro tools prom proms
Asthma risk: If the patient's record does not show any documentation about ER vistis or hospitalizations due to asthma, can I assume the answer is "0"/zero?
Updated: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 asthma
Can asthma control test scores be obtained outside of a face-to-face office visit be submitted?
Updated: Friday, July 10, 2020 asthma asthma control test
Does the actual paper copy of the Asthma Management Plan need to be scanned into the EHR or can a template built within the EHR count? Or do we need both?
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 asthma

Colorectal Cancer Screening (7 articles)

Are stool samples collected by a digital rectal exam (DRE) allowed to be used for the gFOBT and FIT tests?
Updated: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 colorectal cancer screening crc stb stool blood test
Are Certified Nurse Midwives included as eligible providers for the Colorectal Cancer measure?
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 colorectal cancer screening crc
Can I submit a Cologuard screening?
Updated: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 colorectal cancer screening crc
Can you clarify what "date of order" means for Stool Blood Tests?
Updated: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 colorectal cancer screening crc stb stool blood test
Colorectal Cancer Exclusion for SNP or POS
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 cms colorectal cancer screening crc exclusion pos qpp snp special needs

Depression (18 articles)

Depression patient ID Template
Thursday, February 18, 2021 depression care emr change id change patient id
Depression Care summary
Updated: Thursday, January 13, 2022
Can PHQ-9 scores obtained outside of a face-to-face office visit be submitted?
Updated: Friday, July 10, 2020 depression
Can the PHQ-2 be used for the MNCM Depression measure? What is the difference between the PHQ-2 and the PHQ-9?
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 depression depression care measures
Can we submit a PHQ-9/PHQ-9M screening that was completed before the patient had an office visit or indexed?
Updated: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 depression depression care measures phq9 phq-9 phq9m phq-9m pre-visit planning screening

Diabetes & Vascular (10 articles)

Should PCSK9 inhibitors (PCSK9i) be classified as statin medications that are used in clinical measure calculation, given their shared ability to reduce LDL cholesterol levels?
Updated: Monday, November 13, 2023
Acceptable Blood Pressure Readings for Quality Measures
Updated: Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Diabetes measure: Is an A1c result from a home test kit acceptable for reporting?
Updated: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 a1c diabetes hba1c home test lab
Diabetes measure: Should a patient who has Gestational Diabetes be included in the data submission?
Updated: Friday, July 10, 2020 diabetes
Is a patient who meets inclusion criteria for IVD measure and also has Gestational Diabetes considered to have a co-morbidity of diabetes?
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 comorbidity cycle a diabetes gestational diabetes ivd ovc vascular

General Measure Question (4 articles)

E-Cigarettes
Updated: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 cessation e-cig e-cigarette electronic nicotine delivery systems ends smoke smoking tobacco
Risk Adjustment: How is the expected rate calculated?
Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 expected rate risk adjustment
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 adolescent adolescent mental health amh crc depression depression care measures ortho orthopedic pro tools spine spine surgery tkr