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 Option:
- 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 a macular hole who have evidence of anatomic closure documented by OCT within 90 days after surgical treatment.
Risk Adjusted: No
Performance Rate: 1
High Priority Measure: Yes
Inverse Measure: No
Proportional Measure
To Which Patients Does the Measure Apply?
Denominator: All patients aged 18 years or older with a diagnosis of macular hole and a surgical treatment for macular hole.
There are three 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.”
- Procedure codes (CPT): Codes located in “CPT Codes.”
The quality measure also has exclusions for the denominator.
Diagnosis Codes
- Diagnosis of macular hole (ICD-10: H35.341, H35.342, H35.343)
CPT Codes
- Had a surgical procedure to treat or close macular hole (CPT: 67036, 67039, 67041, 67042)
Instructions: This measure is to be reported a minimum of once per reporting period for patients seen during the reporting period. It is anticipated that clinicians who provide the primary management of patients with macular hole will submit this measure.
How to Report the Measure
Numerator: All patients with a macular hole who received surgical treatment and had anatomic closure within 90 days. This could consist of documentation based on OCT that the macular hole is closed or resolved.
Numerator Options
- Performance met: Evidence of anatomic closure within 90 days of surgical treatment (e.g., macular hole is closed or resolved based on OCT)
- Performance not met: No evidence of anatomic closure within 90 days of surgical treatment (e.g., macular hole is open or not closed or not resolved based on OCT)
Denominator Exclusions
- Associated retinal detachment before the date of the surgical treatment (ICD-10: H33.001, H33.002, H33.003, H33.011, H33.012, H33.013, H33.021, H33.022, H33.023, H33.031, H33.032, H33.033, H33.041, H33.042, H33.043, H33.051, H33.052, H33.053, H33.8)
How CMS Scores Your Performance
No scoring benchmark currently exists for this measure.
- 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 at least 20 physicians report the measure on at least 70% of qualifying patients and at least 20 patients, CMS will develop a scoring benchmark using data collected during the 2020 reporting year.
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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