I understand that Core 10 is just a 'yes' about the CQM to follow. However, I am still a little unclear about how these will work. I know they are tracked in different ways, some use a CPT code, some are tracked through the HM indicators. That is probably the biggest problems with remembering them - remembering to track them in different ways (i.e. remembering to use the code for obesity counseling and the ICD-9 for overweight on a patient whose BMI happens to be elevated). This is not very intuitive, and I think will have to be improved if we are going to reach a specified percentage on these.
Here is my question: do they just want us to report these CQM numbers? Right now they have no pass/fail standard? I have one where it looked at the quality indicator and the numerator is only about 3% of the denom but it still says pass. This is not that I haven't been doing foot checks or A1c, it just hasn't been tracked with the way they want it entered.
