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Diabetes & Vascular

This category is for questions related to the Optimal Diabetes Care and the Optimal Vascular Care clinical quality measures.

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
Is Fenofibrate lipid lowering medication an acceptable replacement for statin?
Updated: Friday, July 10, 2020 diabetes fenofibrate odc ovc statin vascular
Statin Exceptions, Aspirin Exceptions and Additional Medication FAQs
Updated: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 asa aspirin aspirin exceptions diabetes statin statin exceptions vascular
Vascular measure: Will MNCM retain the Optimal Vascular Care measure that was removed from SQRMS?
Updated: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 optimal vascular care ovc vascular
When the triglycerides are too high to calculate the LDL, our lab will typically do a measured LDL. Can we submit the measured/calculated LDL value rather than leaving it blank?
Updated: Friday, July 10, 2020 diabetes lab ldl odc ovc vascular
Is Repatha an allowable substitution for a Statin Medication?
Updated: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 diabetes exception medication odc ovc repatha repatha (evolocumab) statin vascular