As I posted on another thread back on 9/12, I found some helpful info from the AMA on the CQM process:
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/399/ehr-clinical-quality-measures.pdf"Although CMS requires all EPs to report core measures, there is no requirement to satisfy a minimum value for any of the numerator, denominator or exclusion fields for clinical quality measures. The value for any or all of those fields, as reported to CMS or the States, may be zero.
? If an EP reports zero values for their three additional clinical quality measures, then for the remaining clinical quality measures in Table 6 (other than the core and alternate core measures), the EP will have to attest that all of the other clinical quality measures calculated by the certified EHR technology have a value of zero in the denominator. If this is done, the EP is exempt from reporting any of the additional clinical quality measures (other than the core and alternate core measures) in Table 6."
As I read this info, all we need is a num/denom/exclusion figure to report. These numbers may be "0". Am I incorrect about this? Or is this an example of murky/meaningless use?
