NQMC Update Service: December 12, 2012
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 12/10/2012 12:00 PM EST
December 10, 2012
New This Week
Measure Summaries
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services- Imaging efficiency: percentage of abdomen CT studies that are performed with and without contrast out of all abdomen CT studies performed.
- Imaging efficiency: percentage of MRI of the lumbar spine studies with a diagnosis of low back pain on the imaging claim and for which the patient did not have prior claims-based evidence of antecedent conservative therapy.
- Imaging efficiency: percentage of patients with mammography screening studies that are followed by a diagnostic mammography, ultrasound or MRI of the breast in an outpatient or office setting within 45 days.
- Imaging efficiency: ratio of thorax CT studies that are performed with and without contrast out of all thorax CT studies performed.
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