Not approved for MIPS reporting, but available for quality improvement purposes
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 who underwent laser trabeculoplasty who had IOP reduced by 20% or more from their pretreatment level or had a reduction in overall number of glaucoma medications.
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 between 40 and 85 years who underwent laser trabeculoplasty.
There are two criteria for inclusion of a patient into the denominator.
- Patient characteristics: Description located in “Denominator” (see above).
- Procedure codes (CPT): Codes located in “CPT Codes.”
The quality measure also has exclusions for the denominator.
CPT Codes
- Laser trabeculoplasty procedure (CPT: 65855 with modifier RT, LT, -50)
How to Report the Measure
Numerator:Patients with a reduction in IOP ≥ 20% from the pretreatment level or had a reduction in overall number of glaucoma medications. (If two eyes of patient meet denominator criteria, select one eye with the smaller percentage decrease in IOP or no reduction in overall number of glaucoma medications).
Numerator calculation:
- Percent change between pretreatment IOP (do not include IOP values taken on the day of procedure) and the lowest IOP measures between 2 and 4 months postoperatively.
- Calculation is based on the IOP of the eye that underwent the procedure.
- Number of glaucoma medication is compared prior to laser trabeculoplasty and after laser trabeculoplasty between 2 and 4 months postoperatively.
Denominator Exclusions
- Eyes with absolute glaucoma blindness (ICD-10: H44.511, H44.512, H44.513)
- Visual acuity findings: Count fingers (CF or FC), hand motion (HM), light perception (LP), no light perception (NLP)
How CMS Scores Your Performance
See the 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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