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PIPE Medical Groups Resources
PIPE Medical Group Onboarding (11 articles)
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Milestone
1 - Pre-Implementation Tasks
Updated
Updated: Monday, May 22, 2023
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Milestone 2A - Query and Data File Format (First File Set)
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Updated: Friday, May 19, 2023
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Milestone 2B - Query and Data File Format (Second File Set)
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Updated: Friday, May 19, 2023
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Milestone 3 - Sandbox Imports and Verify Data Extract
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Updated: Monday, May 22, 2023
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Milestone 4 - Production Data Uploads, Measure Calculations, and Final Validations
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Updated: Monday, May 22, 2023
PIPE Medical Group Guides & Specs (10 articles)
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NEW PIPE Data File Field Specifications v2.1
Updated: Tuesday, January 31, 2023
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PIPE File Extract Guidance
Updated: Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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PIPE Data Submission Instructions
Updated: Wednesday, December 28, 2022
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PIPE Measure Calculation Instructions
Updated: Thursday, September 30, 2021
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PIPE Registration Guide and Provider template
Updated: Monday, January 30, 2023
PIPE Medical Group Videos (5 articles)
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PIPE Milestones and Timeline
Friday, May 5, 2023
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Readiness Assessment Video
Updated: Friday, May 5, 2023
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PIPE File Extract Guide Walkthrough
Friday, May 5, 2023
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Requesting New User Accounts for PIPE Sites
Friday, May 5, 2023
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General PIPE Sandbox and Production Portal Walkthrough
Updated: Friday, May 5, 2023
PIPE Medical Group FAQ (8 articles)
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2019 Total Knee Replacement Appendices
Monday, January 23, 2023
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PIPE Blood Pressure Appointment Type guidance
Updated: Wednesday, December 21, 2022
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Asthma Education & Self Management Measure in PIPE
Updated: Monday, October 31, 2022
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How does the measure handle patients with multiple cancer diagnoses?
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
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Medication Frequency
Updated: Tuesday, August 30, 2022
PIPE Payer Resources
PIPE Payer Onboarding (3 articles)
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Welcome to the PIPE Onboarding for Payers Page!
Updated: Friday, April 21, 2023
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Payer PIPE Assessment and Readiness Confirmation
Updated: Friday, April 21, 2023
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PIPE Onboarding Work Plan for Payers
Updated: Wednesday, March 22, 2023
PIPE Payer Guides & File Field Specifications (1 articles)
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PIPE Payer Enrollment Data File Field Specifications
Updated: Friday, March 24, 2023
Technical, Submission & Validation Support
Preliminary Clinical Quality Measure Results (2 articles)
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Preliminary 2022 MY Statewide Clinical Quality Measure Results for Medical Group Review until April 21st
Updated: Tuesday, April 11, 2023
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Preliminary 2021 MY Depression Care Statewide Clinical Quality Measure Results for Medical Group Review
Updated: Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Direct Data Submission (DDS) Resources (19 articles)
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Data Submission Planning Calendar
Updated: Friday, October 28, 2022
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Adolescent Mental Health and/or Depression Screening Guides
Updated: Friday, October 28, 2022
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Optimal Asthma Control, Asthma Education & Self-Management DDS Guides
Updated: Friday, October 28, 2022
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Colorectal Cancer Screening Guides
Updated: Friday, October 28, 2022
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Depression Care Guides
Updated: Friday, October 28, 2022
Technical Questions (8 articles)
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Steps to clear out saved passwords
Updated: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 data portal password
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How can I view my clinic's rates for a previous reporting period?
Monday, August 17, 2020 previous results technical dds portal
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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
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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
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What numbers do I enter for "Number of Eligible Patients (exclusions removed)" and "Number of Patients Submitting"?
Tuesday, July 30, 2019 data submission
Registration & Portal Maintenance
Clinic and Provider Registration (Resources) (6 articles)
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Data Submission Planning Calendar
Updated: Friday, October 28, 2022
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Registration Instructions and Addendum
Updated: Sunday, October 30, 2022
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Provider Registration Template
Updated: Thursday, October 27, 2022
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Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Calculation tool
Updated: Thursday, October 27, 2022
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Steps to update the provider registration file
Updated: Saturday, October 30, 2021
Clinic and Provider Registration (FAQs) (11 articles)
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Which clinics need to register?
Updated: Tuesday, November 30, 2021
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Should we include providers who were employed for a only portion of the year?
Updated: Saturday, October 30, 2021
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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
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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
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Is a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) required to be registered?
Updated: Saturday, October 30, 2021
Survey Questions
HIT Survey Questions (1 articles)
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HIT Survey administered every other year
Updated: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 2020 health information technology hit mdh survey
Special Projects
MNCM Webinar Series (5 articles)
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A New Approach for Data Sharing Among Health Care Payers and Providers
Updated: Thursday, July 29, 2021 chirp
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A New Approach to Measurement: Introduction to PIPE Recorded Presentation and Slide Deck
Updated: Thursday, July 29, 2021
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Preparing to Onboard to PIPE: A Detailed Look at the Process and Requirements Recorded Webinar and Slide Deck
Updated: Monday, April 24, 2023
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Health Care Cost and Utilization in Minnesota: A Review of Results from 2019 Recorded Presentation and Slide Deck
Updated: Thursday, July 29, 2021 cost
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Expanding the Care Team to Improve Outcomes: Minnesota Evaluation Project Highlights Impact of Pharmacy-Based Interventions Recorded Presentation and Slide Deck
Updated: Thursday, July 29, 2021
Minnesota Care Coordination Effectiveness Study (MNCARES) (4 articles)
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MNCARES Information Page for Clinics - Primary Cohort 2022 Submission
Updated: Friday, May 13, 2022
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MNCARES: Frequently Asked Questions (Primary Cohort)
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
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Defining Care Coordination via Standard Codes
Updated: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 mncares
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Welcome to MNCARES Webinar
Updated: Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Measure Questions
Adolescent Mental Health /Depression Screening (4 articles)
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Should all patients be included in the Adolescent Mental Health denominator if they had an eligible telehealth visit?
Updated: Tuesday, November 9, 2021
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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
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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
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Adolescent Mental Health screening required exclusions time frame
Updated: Thursday, September 30, 2021
Asthma (10 articles)
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2021 Measurement Year Asthma Adult and Child date ranges
Updated: Thursday, November 11, 2021
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Are the Asthma measures also a Health Care Home (HCH) measure?
Updated: Friday, July 10, 2020 asthma
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Asthma PRO tool links
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 asthma optimal asthma control pro tools prom proms
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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, July 7, 2020 asthma
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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
Colorectal Cancer Screening (7 articles)
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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
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Are Certified Nurse Midwives included as eligible providers for the Colorectal Cancer measure?
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 colorectal cancer screening crc
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Can I submit a Cologuard screening?
Updated: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 colorectal cancer screening crc
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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
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Colorectal Cancer Exclusion for SNP or POS
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 cms colorectal cancer screening crc exclusion pos qpp snp special needs
Depression (22 articles)
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Depression patient ID Template
Thursday, February 18, 2021 depression care emr change id change patient id
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Depression Care summary
Updated: Thursday, January 13, 2022
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Why were telehealth codes not added to value set for the Depression Care measure?
Updated: Monday, November 16, 2020 depression care measures phq9 telehealth telemedicine
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Depression Care in Minnesota
Updated: Thursday, October 15, 2020 depression report
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Can PHQ-9 scores obtained outside of a face-to-face office visit be submitted?
Updated: Friday, July 10, 2020 depression
Diabetes & Vascular (11 articles)
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Acceptable Blood Pressure Readings for Quality Measures
Updated: Wednesday, May 4, 2022
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Medication exception value set
Updated: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 diabetes exception medication value set update vascular
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Diabetes measure: Is an A1c result from a home test kit acceptable for reporting?
Updated: Thursday, January 20, 2022 a1c diabetes hba1c home test lab
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Diabetes measure: Should a patient who has Gestational Diabetes be included in the data submission?
Updated: Friday, July 10, 2020 diabetes
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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 (9 articles)
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Bilateral Total Knee Replacement Guidance
Updated: Monday, April 24, 2023
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What are the technical measure changes related to 2020 Measurement Year (Reported in 2021)?
Updated: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 blood pressure telehealth telemedicine
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What changes have been made to MNCM quality measures in 2020 to reduce data collection burden?
Updated: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 2020 aspirin burden exceptions statin
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Adolescent Mental Health and Colorectal Cancer Screening: If a patient refuses screening, does the patient come out of the denominator?
Updated: Friday, July 10, 2020 adolescent mental health amh colorectal cancer screening crc
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DDS thresholds for Public Reporting
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 dds eligible minimum patients public reporting quality report reporting threshold
HEDIS Questions (5 articles)
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HEDIS Measure Specifications
Updated: Thursday, May 4, 2023 hedis hedis measure specifications
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HEDIS: Are there clinic level results?
Thursday, May 4, 2023 clinic hedis
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HEDIS: Patient Eligibility, Medical Group Attribution & Reportability Thresholds, and Hybrid Measure Sampling
Thursday, May 4, 2023 hedis reportable
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Guardian Angel Consulting
Updated: Tuesday, May 9, 2023
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HEDIS thresholds for public reporting
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 eligible hedis minimum patients public reporting reportable reporting threshold
Insurance and RELC supplemental data (8 articles)
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COVID HRSA Insurance
Updated: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 covid covid hrsa mhcp
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How to handle insurance for patients with two primary insurers
Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 commercial dual insurance medicaid medicare primary
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How do I properly code Sage insurance?
Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 insurance
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How to properly code Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) insurance product.
Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 insurance
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What is the difference between the 97 and 98 codes for "choose not to disclose" and "unknown"?
Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 2020 2020 reporting country of origin ethnicity preferred language race rel relc
Orthopedic Measures (6 articles)
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Spine Surgery PRO Tool: Numeric Pain Scale
Updated: Thursday, February 2, 2023
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PIPE Supplemental Guide: Orthopedic Measure Calculations and Value Set
Updated: Thursday, February 2, 2023 orthopedic pipe
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Since public reporting for the orthopedic measures has been temporarily suspended, should we stop assessing our patients?
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 2020 2020 reporting discectomy disc-lami fusion laminotomy lumbar ortho orthopedic pro tools spine surgery tkr total knee replacement
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Historical articles about the redesign of Orthopedic/Neurosurgery Measures
Updated: Monday, September 13, 2021
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Total Knee Replacement PRO tools
Updated: Thursday, February 2, 2023
Oncology Measures (3 articles)
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Instructions for Obtaining PRO-CTCAE
Updated: Thursday, March 24, 2022
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Oncology Measures - Symptom Control During Chemotherapy
Updated: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 cancer
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PRO-CTCAE tool links archive
Updated: Thursday, March 24, 2022 cancer scdc symptom symptom control during chemotherapy
Updates and Measure Changes
COVID-19 Response (1 articles)
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What does the COVID-19 pandemic mean for health care measurement and reporting?
Updated: Monday, April 13, 2020 blood pressure coronavirus covid covid-19 home monitored blood pressure telemedicine virtual health virtual medicine virtual visit
Clinical Measure Updates (3 articles)
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Colorectal Cancer Screening Measure Updates, May 2022
Updated: Friday, May 6, 2022
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Slate of MNCM Measures
Updated: Saturday, October 30, 2021
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Preliminary and final measure specifications and value sets
Updated: Thursday, April 28, 2022 final preliminary specifications update value sets
Security
Security Policies (1 articles)
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Security Policies
Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2020
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