General Information 3

• ⇅ Join our Newsletter Mailing List!

  Updated: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 newsletter measurement minute mailing list

• ⇅ MNCM Trust Center

  Updated: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 security compliance soc2 hipaa network security data security risk vulnerability confidentiality

• ⇅ MNCM Status Page Updated

  Updated: Wednesday, July 1, 2026 outage downtime status mncm secure file sharing pipe production site pipe upload pipe sftp incident maintenance service disruption

Updates and Measure Changes 3

• ⇅ Changes to Depression Care Suite

  Updated: Wednesday, April 8, 2026 depression 2026my measurement year 2026 measure specifications depression outcome 2027 measurement year 2027 changes depression measure specifications measure changes 2026

• ⇅ MNCM's Updated Data Retention Policy - Dec 2, 2025 Webinar

  Wednesday, December 10, 2025 data retention records retention data purge webinar

• ⇅ Upcoming Changes to the Optimal Asthma Control Measure

  Updated: Monday, October 27, 2025 asthma optimal asthma control oac airq my2026 2026my measurement year 2026 measure change

IT Support Requests 1

• ⇅ User Account Requests and Changes

  Updated: Tuesday, February 3, 2026 pipe user account account user access sandbox secure portal upload portal

Clinic and Provider Registration Resources 3

Resources for annual clinic and provider registration

• ⇅ Data Submission Planning Calendar

  Updated: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 data submission provider registration clinic registration annual registration planning calendar deadline data submission deadline measure reporting measure reporting deadline

• ⇅ Clinic and Provider Registration Guide and Provider Registration Template

  Updated: Sunday, November 23, 2025 registration provider registration clinic registration annual 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

Medical Group Onboarding Overview 11

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

• ⇅ Welcome to the PIPE Onboarding Page!

  Updated: Monday, March 23, 2026 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

• ⇅ Milestone 2B - Query and Data File Format (Second File Set)

  Updated: Friday, May 19, 2023

• ⇅ Milestone 3 - Sandbox Imports and Verify Data Extract

  Updated: Monday, July 24, 2023

Medical Group Guides & Specifications 15

• ⇅ PIPE Data Submission Certification Survey

  Updated: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 data submission pipe certification pre-submission survey

• ⇅ PIPE Data File Field Specifications

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

• ⇅ PIPE ALL Measure Specifications

  Updated: Sunday, December 28, 2025 specs measure specifications technical specs technical measure specifications technical measure specs calculation specifications calculation specs measure calculation specifications measure calculation specs

• ⇅ PIPE Data Submission Instructions for Medical Groups

  Updated: Tuesday, August 8, 2023

• ⇅ PIPE Measure Calculation Instructions

  Updated: Friday, January 10, 2025

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

Medical Group FAQs 19

• ⇅ Urgent Care and Measure Denominator Inclusion

  Tuesday, June 17, 2025 urgent care denominator inclusion

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

  Updated: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 email pipe pipe email unsubscribe

• ⇅ 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

Payer Onboarding Overview 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

Payer Guides & 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

Payer FAQs 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

Asthma 6

This category is for questions related to the Asthma clinical quality measures (Optimal Asthma Control and Asthma Education and Self-Management).

• ⇅ AIRQ Assessment Tool - Optimal Asthma Control: 12 month vs 3 month follow-up versions

  Updated: Thursday, November 20, 2025 asthma pro tools optimal asthma control pro assessment tools oac my2026

• ⇅ Are the Asthma measures also a Health Care Home (HCH) measure?

  Updated: Friday, July 10, 2020 asthma

• ⇅ 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

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 5

This category is for questions related to HEDIS measures.

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

  Updated: Thursday, April 9, 2026 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: Monday, February 23, 2026 hedis reportable

• ⇅ HEDIS thresholds for public reporting

  Updated: Tuesday, January 13, 2026 hedis reportable eligible threshold minimum patients public reporting reporting

Orthopedic Measures 5

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

• ⇅ Total Knee Replacement PRO tools

  Updated: Thursday, February 2, 2023

• ⇅ Spine Surgery PRO tools

  Updated: Thursday, February 2, 2023 spine surgery disc-lami fusion pro tools

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

Preliminary Clinical Quality Measure Results 1

• ⇅ Preliminary 2025 MY Clinical Quality Measure Results for Medical Group Review

  Updated: Friday, May 8, 2026 results two week review preliminary 2025 measure results prelim 2025 measurement year 2025 my 2025my my2025 my 2025 review preliminary review

Final Clinical Quality Measure Results 2

• ⇅ Final Statewide Measure Results

  Updated: Tuesday, May 12, 2026 measures results hedis public reporting quality report public reports utilization cost hedis measure reports measure results tcoc

• ⇅ MNCM Launches the Performance Hub

  Updated: Monday, April 20, 2026 results hedis public reporting quality report public reports utilization cost hedis measure reports measure results

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