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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 covid covid-19 coronavirus telemedicine virtual visit virtual medicine virtual health home monitored blood pressure
Clinical Measure Changes (4 articles)
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Slate of Measures 2020 Measurement Year (Reported in 2021)
Updated: Monday, January 4, 2021 required reporting reporting slate of measures marc
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What are the technical measure changes related to 2020 Measurement Year (Reported in 2021)?
Updated: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 blood pressure telemedicine telehealth
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What changes have been made to MNCM quality measures in 2020 to reduce data collection burden?
Updated: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 statin aspirin 2020 burden exceptions
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2020 Measurement Year (Reported in 2021) Submission Deadlines
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 deadlines submission
Technical, Submission & Validation Support
Data Submission Resources (21 articles)
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2020 MY Planning Calendar for Medical Groups
Updated: Saturday, November 14, 2020 required reporting data submission cycle b data planning calendar calendar cycle a deadlines 2020my 2021 reporting
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2020 Measurement Year Educational Webinars
Updated: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 asthma diabetes vascular crc colorectal cancer screening depression adolescent mental health registration all measures odc ovc depression care measures mncmacademy direct data submission webinars educational videos provider tools resources
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Data Collection Technical Guide: Optimal Diabetes Care
Updated: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 diabetes required reporting odc specs specifications cycle a technical guide guide d5 2020my 2021 reporting
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Data Collection Technical Guide: Optimal Vascular Care
Updated: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 vascular required reporting ovc specs specifications optimal vascular care cycle a technical guide guide ivd v4 2020my 2021 reporting
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Data Collection Technical Guide: Adolescent Mental Health and/or Depression Screening
Updated: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 amh adolescent mental health required reporting cycle b specs specifications cycle a technical guide peds pediatric guide 2020my
Preliminary HEDIS Performance Results (1 articles)
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Preliminary HEDIS Measure Review
Updated: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 hedis two week review preliminary
PIPE (4 articles)
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PIPE Data Standard
Updated: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 pipe data standard
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PIPE Registration Guide
Updated: Thursday, October 15, 2020
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PIPE Data Submission Instructions
Thursday, October 15, 2020
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PIPE Measure Calculation Instructions
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Technical Questions (8 articles)
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How can I view my clinic's rates for a previous reporting period?
Monday, August 17, 2020 technical dds portal previous results
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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 technical dds portal previous results
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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
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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
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Steps for saving an excel file as a csv file
Updated: Monday, June 10, 2019 data submission
Registration & Portal Maintenance
DDS Portal Registration Question (14 articles)
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2020 Measurement Year Registration Instructions
Updated: Friday, October 30, 2020 registration 2020my
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Annual Clinic and Provider Registration Course and Webinar
Updated: Friday, November 6, 2020 registration fte clinic provider register
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Provider Registration Template
Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 provider template
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Other additional provider registration
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 registration other providers provider registration 0
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2020 Measurement Year FTE Calculation tool
Updated: Friday, October 30, 2020 registration fte provider 2020my
Measure Questions
Adolescent Mental Health /Depression Screening (4 articles)
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Addition of Telehealth Visits for Identifying Eligible Patients in the Adolescent Mental Health and/or Depression Screening Measure
Updated: Friday, January 8, 2021 amh adolescent mental health telehealth value set update
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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: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 amh adolescent mental health
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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: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 depression amh adolescent mental health pro tools screening
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Adolescent Mental Health screening required exclusions time frame
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 amh adolescent mental health exclusion required exclusions
Asthma (10 articles)
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2020 Measurement Year Asthma Adult and Child date ranges
Thursday, February 25, 2021 population count adult date of birth ranges child denominator
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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 pro tools optimal asthma control proms prom
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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 (8 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 crc colorectal cancer screening 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 crc colorectal cancer screening
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Can I submit a Cologuard screening?
Updated: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 crc colorectal cancer screening
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Can you clarify what "date of order" means for Stool Blood Tests?
Updated: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 crc colorectal cancer screening stb stool blood test
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Colorectal Cancer Exclusion for SNP or POS
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 crc colorectal cancer screening qpp cms exclusion pos snp special needs
Depression (19 articles)
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Depression patient ID Template
Thursday, February 18, 2021 depression care patient id emr change id change
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Why were telehealth codes not added to value set for the Depression Care measure?
Updated: Monday, November 16, 2020 phq9 depression care measures telemedicine telehealth
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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
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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
Diabetes & Vascular (10 articles)
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Acceptable Blood Pressure Readings for Quality Measures
Updated: Monday, January 18, 2021 diabetes vascular blood pressure telehealth virtual remote
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Medication exception value set
Friday, November 13, 2020 diabetes vascular exception medication value set update
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Blood pressures taken in an outpatient setting
Updated: Thursday, November 12, 2020 diabetes vascular blood pressure infusion center
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Diabetes measure: Is an A1c result from a home test kit acceptable for reporting?
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 diabetes lab a1c hba1c home test
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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
General Measure Question (6 articles)
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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 crc colorectal cancer screening amh adolescent mental health
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DDS thresholds for Public Reporting
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 eligible threshold minimum patients public reporting reporting dds quality report
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E-Cigarettes
Updated: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 tobacco e-cig e-cigarette electronic nicotine delivery systems ends smoking smoke cessation
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Risk Adjustment: How is the expected rate calculated?
Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 risk adjustment expected rate
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When will the Value Sets be available for the next report year?
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 asthma diabetes vascular spine surgery total knee replacement disc-lami fusion crc colorectal cancer screening depression amh adolescent mental health tkr ortho value sets all measures odc ovc
HEDIS Questions (2 articles)
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Controlling High Blood Pressure HEDIS Results
Friday, February 12, 2021 hedis chbp controlling high blood pressure
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HEDIS thresholds for public reporting
Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 hedis reportable eligible threshold minimum patients public reporting reporting
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 insurance primary dual commercial medicare medicaid
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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 rel 2020 reporting 2020 race ethnicity preferred language country of origin relc
Orthopedic Measures (3 articles)
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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 spine surgery total knee replacement disc-lami fusion tkr pro tools orthopedic ortho 2020 reporting 2020 discectomy laminotomy lumbar
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Redesign of Orthopedic/Neurosurgery Measures
Updated: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 spine surgery total knee replacement disc-lami fusion tkr orthopedic ortho redesign lumbar
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Spine Surgery PRO tools
Updated: Friday, November 6, 2020 spine surgery disc-lami fusion pro tools
Special Projects
MNCM Webinar Series (5 articles)
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A New Approach for Data Sharing Among Health Care Payers and Providers
Thursday, January 14, 2021 webinar series webinar chirp data sharing
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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: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 webinar pharmacy pharmacy-based interventions
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Preparing to Onboard to PIPE: A Detailed Look at the Process and Requirements Recorded Webinar and Slide Deck
Updated: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 pipe data standard webinar series webinar
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Health Care Cost and Utilization in Minnesota: A Review of Results from 2019 Recorded Presentation and Slide Deck
Updated: Friday, November 13, 2020 webinars webinar series recorded presentation cost
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A New Approach to Measurement: Introduction to PIPE Recorded Presentation and Slide Deck
Updated: Friday, October 30, 2020 webinars pipe webinar series pipe overview a new approach to measurement recorded presentation
MNCARES Questions (2 articles)
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MNCARES Clinic Field Specifications
new
Updated
Updated: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 mncares data specification
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How will data be shared among MNCARES partners?
Updated
Updated: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 mncares
Survey Questions
HIT Survey Questions (1 articles)
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HIT Survey administered every other year
Updated: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 mdh hit survey 2020 health information technology
Security
Security Policies (1 articles)
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Security Policies
Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2020
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