Updated December 2024. No changes for 2024.
The measure is approved for traditional MIPS submission pathway only.
Care Setting: Ambulatory Care: Clinician Office/Clinic
Reporting Options:
- IRIS Registry QCDR for EHR: groups and individuals
- IRIS Registry QCDR manual data entry: groups and individuals
Measure Type: Outcome
NQS Domain: Effective Clinical Care
Meaningful Measure Area: Management of Chronic Conditions
Description: Percentage of patients with acute anterior uveitis post-treatment with Grade 0 anterior chamber cells
Risk Adjusted: No
Performance Rate: 1
High Priority Measure: Yes
Inverse Measure: No
Proportional Measure
To Which Patients Does the Measure Apply?
Denominator: Patients aged 18 years or older who underwent treatment for acute anterior uveitis
There are two criteria for inclusion of a patient into the denominator.
- Patient characteristics: Description located in “Denominator” (see above).
- Diagnosis codes (ICD-10-CM): Codes located in “Diagnosis Codes.”
Diagnosis Codes
Diagnosis of acute uveitis
- Primary iridocyclitis (ICD-10: H20.011, H20.012, H20.013, H20.019)
- Recurrent acute iridocyclitis (ICD-10: H20.021, H20.022, H20.023, H20.029)
- Unspecified acute and subacute iridocyclitis (ICD-10: H20.00)
How To Report the Measure
Numerator: Patients with Grade 0 anterior chamber cells after treatment within 30 days after onset of treatment and not on topical corticosteroids at 60 days after treatment
How CMS Scores Your Performance
- If you successfully report a measure for less than 70% of your patients, you will earn points based on your practice size:
- Small practices (≤ 15 clinicians) will receive 3 points,
- Larger practices (> 15 clinicians) will receive 0 points.
- If you successfully report a measure for at least 70%of your patients, but do not report at least 20 cases, you will receive 3 points.
- If you report this measure for at least 70%of applicable patients and on at least 20 patients during a performance period, you will earn points based on the decile that corresponds to your performance rate. Not all measures offer points for every decile.
Benchmarks
See QPP resource library for benchmarks.
Copyright
This measure has been developed by the H. Dunbar Hoskins Jr. MD Center for Quality Eye Care of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. The measure is not a clinical guideline and does not establish a medical standard. It has not been tested in all possible applications.
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