NQMC Update Service: March 21, 2016 || Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

NQMC Update Service: March 21, 2016

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. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Imaging efficiency: percentage of brain CT studies with a simultaneous sinus CT. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• 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. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• 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. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Imaging efficiency: percentage of stress echocardiography, SPECT MPI, or stress MRI studies performed at a hospital outpatient facility in the 30 days prior to an ambulatory low-risk, non-cardiac surgery performed anywhere. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Imaging efficiency: percentage of thorax CT studies that are performed with and without contrast out of all thorax CT studies performed. This updates a previously published measure summary.