dQM QICore Content Implementation Guide
2025.0.0 - CI Build
dQM QICore Content Implementation Guide, published by cqframework. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2025.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/cqframework/dqm-content-qicore-2025/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
Official URL: https://madie.cms.gov/Measure/CMS1264FHIRECATREHQR | Version: 1.0.000 | |||
Active as of 2025-08-25 | Responsible: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) | Computable Name: CMS1264FHIRECATREHQR | ||
Other Identifiers: Short Name: CMS1264FHIR (use: usual, ), UUID:eb3e269b-97ef-4548-9e87-c89b25789184 (use: official, ), UUID:c83b4461-25cb-4d66-af72-6502b14ebab8 (use: official, ), Endorser: 4625e (use: official, ), Publisher: 1264FHIR (use: official, ) | ||||
Copyright/Legal: Limited proprietary coding is contained in these specifications for user convenience. Users of proprietary code sets should obtain all necessary licenses from the owners of the code sets. This material contains SNOMED Clinical Terms(R) (SNOMED CT[R]) copyright 2004-2024 International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation. All rights reserved. ICD-10 copyright 2024 World Health Organization. All Rights Reserved. CPT(R) contained in the measure specifications is copyright 2004-2024 American Medical Association. |
This measure assesses the variation in access and timeliness of emergency care to support rural emergency hospital (REH) quality improvement for patients requiring emergency care in an emergency department (ED). This measure is designed to align with incentives to promote improved care both in EDs and the broader health system to help identify where patients do not receive timely access to emergency care. Emergency care access and timeliness gaps are inclusive of several concepts pertaining to boarding and crowding in an ED, including significantly longer ED wait times, higher left without being seen rates, longer boarding times, and longer total length of stay in the ED.
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Title | Emergency Care Access & Timeliness (REHQR)FHIR |
Version | 1.0.000 |
Short Name | CMS1264FHIR |
GUID (Version Independent) | urn:uuid:eb3e269b-97ef-4548-9e87-c89b25789184 |
GUID (Version Specific) | urn:uuid:c83b4461-25cb-4d66-af72-6502b14ebab8 |
CMS Identifier | 1264FHIR |
CMS Consensus Based Entity Identifier | 4625e |
Effective Period | 2027-01-01 through 2027-12-31 |
Steward (Publisher) | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) |
Developer | Acumen, LLC |
Description | This measure assesses the variation in access and timeliness of emergency care to support rural emergency hospital (REH) quality improvement for patients requiring emergency care in an emergency department (ED). This measure is designed to align with incentives to promote improved care both in EDs and the broader health system to help identify where patients do not receive timely access to emergency care. Emergency care access and timeliness gaps are inclusive of several concepts pertaining to boarding and crowding in an ED, including significantly longer ED wait times, higher left without being seen rates, longer boarding times, and longer total length of stay in the ED. |
Copyright | Limited proprietary coding is contained in these specifications for user convenience. Users of proprietary code sets should obtain all necessary licenses from the owners of the code sets. This material contains SNOMED Clinical Terms(R) (SNOMED CT[R]) copyright 2004-2024 International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation. All rights reserved. ICD-10 copyright 2024 World Health Organization. All Rights Reserved. CPT(R) contained in the measure specifications is copyright 2004-2024 American Medical Association. |
Disclaimer | These performance specifications are not clinical guidelines, do not establish a standard of medical care, and have not been tested for all potential applications. THE MEASURES AND SPECIFICATIONS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. Due to technical limitations, registered trademarks are indicated by (R) or [R] and unregistered trademarks are indicated by (TM) or [TM]. |
Rationale | This measure aims to reduce patient harm and improve outcomes for patients requiring emergency care in an ED by addressing the variation in emergency care and measuring access and timeliness of emergency care. There are long-standing concerns about parameters that impact access and timeliness of care in the ED. Currently, there are no national metrics to assess the proportion of patients impacted by access and timeliness of ED care. |
Clinical Recommendation Statement | Changes in care provision and workflow are anticipated from implementing this Emergency Care Access & Timeliness (ECAT) REH dQM. To improve time to place a patient in a treatment space (as defined by the numerator below), changes in care may include improving patient flow processes, triaging interventions (such as inclusion of predictive models or different clinical deployment), or increased availability and access to outpatient clinical and social services. Other changes in care may include increases in local healthcare capacity including mental health care (mental health liaisons, co-located mental health services, or specialist psychiatry services), and use of ‘hospital home’ care models. Furthermore, changes to the following may also be considered: staffing models, ED observation units, diagnostic testing and imaging processes, or physical changes to ED layout. Such changes may result in the following: decreased waiting room time, decreased door to provider times, higher proportion of patients seen within 1 hour, decrease in proportion of patients who leave without being evaluated, better management of mental health diagnoses, reduced length of stay in the ED, decreased turnaround time for diagnostic tests and imaging, improved time to treatment, and decreased ambulance diversion. Changes in clinician or patient-reported outcomes and costs may include the following: improved patient experience, decrease in morbidity and mortality, increased ED revenue, and improved patient outcomes. |
Citation | American Medical Association. (2022). What is Behavioral Health. https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/what-behavioral-health |
Definition | Boarding: The practice of holding transfer patients in the emergency department after a decision to transfer has been made. |
Definition | ED Observation: Observation stays are inclusive of both ED observation care in which a patient initially evaluated in the ED is cared for under observation status for an extended period of time in the ED or in a care area dedicated to observation care, as well as hospital observation stays in which a patient initially evaluated in the ED is cared for in observation status often in a hospital bed used for both inpatient or observation status admissions. Because these two forms of observation stays cannot be easily distinguished in a standardized fashion in existing electronic health record data ontologies, for the purposes of this quality measure all observation stays have been considered an exclusion from both numerator outcomes 3 and 4. |
Definition | Left Without Being Seen (LWBS): Patients arrive to the ED for evaluation and leave before seeing a physician, advanced practice nurse, or physician’s assistant. |
Definition | Mental Health: Mental health generally refers to mental health diagnoses, life stressors and crises, and stress-related physical symptoms (American Medical Association [AMA], 2022). For this measure, mental health conditions will be defined separately from substance use disorders. |
Guidance (Usage) | Measure Score Calculation The measure score is calculated at the individual ED level as the proportion of ED visits where any one of the four outcomes occurred, as defined by the numerator. For CMS Certification Numbers (CCNs) with more than one ED, scores are combined as a weighted average for that CCN. This dQM is an episode-based measure. An episode is defined as an ED visit that ends during the measurement period. This FHIR-based measure has been derived from the QDM-based measure: CMS1264v1. Please refer to the HL7 QI-Core Implementation Guide (https://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/STU6/) for more information on QI-Core and mapping recommendations from QDM to QI-Core STU 6 (https://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/STU6/qdm-to-qicore.html). |
Measure Group (Rate) (ID: Group_1) | |
Basis | Encounter |
Scoring | [http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-scoring#proportion: 'Proportion'] |
Type | [http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-type#outcome: 'Outcome'] |
Rate Aggregation | None |
Improvement Notation | [http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-improvement-notation#decrease: 'Decreased score indicates improvement'] |
Initial Population |
ID: InitialPopulation_1
Description: All ED visits at REHs that end during the measurement period for all patients Logic Definition: Initial Population |
Denominator |
ID: Denominator_1
Description: Equals Initial Population Logic Definition: Denominator |
Numerator |
ID: Numerator_1
Description: The numerator is comprised of any ED visit in the denominator with any quality gap in access; if the patient experiences any of the following during a visit, the visit is included in the numerator: 1. The patient waited longer than 60 minutes (1 hour) after arrival to ED to be placed in a treatment room or dedicated treatment area that allows for audiovisual privacy during history-taking and physical examination, or 2. The patient left the ED without being evaluated, or 3. The patient, if transferred, boarded for longer than 240 minutes (4 hours), or 4. The patient had an ED length of stay (LOS) (time from ED arrival to ED departure as defined by the ED departure timestamp indicating when the patient physically left the ED) of longer than 480 minutes (8 hours). ED encounters with ED observation stays are excluded from criteria #3 (boarded) and #4 (ED LOS) Logic Definition: Numerator |
Stratifier |
ID: Stratification_1_1
Description: All patients aged less than 18 years seen in the ED who do not have an ED encounter principal diagnosis consistent with mental health diagnosis. Patients who have an ED encounter principal diagnosis consistent with substance use disorders will be included in this stratification. |
Stratifier |
ID: Stratification_1_2
Description: All patients aged 18 years and older seen in the ED who do not have an ED encounter principal diagnosis consistent with mental health diagnosis. Patients who have an ED encounter principal diagnosis consistent with substance use disorders will be included in this stratification. |
Stratifier |
ID: Stratification_1_3
Description: All patients aged less than 18 years seen in the ED who have an ED encounter principal diagnosis consistent with mental health diagnosis. |
Stratifier |
ID: Stratification_1_4
Description: All patients aged 18 years and older seen in the ED who have an ED encounter principal diagnosis consistent with mental health diagnosis. |
Supplemental Data Guidance | For every patient evaluated by this measure also identify payer, race, ethnicity and sex |
Supplemental Data Elements | |
Supplemental Data Element |
ID: sde-ethnicity
Usage Code: [http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-data-usage#supplemental-data] Description: SDE Ethnicity Logic Definition: SDE Ethnicity |
Supplemental Data Element |
ID: sde-payer
Usage Code: [http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-data-usage#supplemental-data] Description: SDE Payer Logic Definition: SDE Payer |
Supplemental Data Element |
ID: sde-race
Usage Code: [http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-data-usage#supplemental-data] Description: SDE Race Logic Definition: SDE Race |
Supplemental Data Element |
ID: sde-sex
Usage Code: [http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-data-usage#supplemental-data] Description: SDE Sex Logic Definition: SDE Sex |
Measure Logic | |
Primary Library | https://madie.cms.gov/Library/CMS1264FHIRECATREHQR |
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Population Criteria
Logic Definitions Terminology Dependencies Data Requirements |
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Logic Definition | Library Name: SupplementalDataElements |
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Logic Definition | Library Name: CQMCommon |
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Logic Definition | Library Name: QICoreCommon |
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Logic Definition | Library Name: QICoreCommon |
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Terminology | |
Code System |
Description: Code system SNOMEDCT
Resource: http://snomed.info/sct Canonical URL: http://snomed.info/sct |
Code System |
Description: Code system RoleCode
Resource: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-RoleCode Canonical URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-RoleCode |
Code System |
Description: Code system Diagnosis Type
Resource: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/ex-diagnosistype Canonical URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/ex-diagnosistype |
Value Set |
Description: Value set Emergency Department Evaluation and Management Visit
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1010 Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1010 |
Value Set |
Description: Value set Triage
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1046.279 Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1046.279 |
Value Set |
Description: Value set Emergency Department Location
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1046.284 Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1046.284 |
Value Set |
Description: Value set Emergency Department Treatment Location
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1046.278 Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1046.278 |
Value Set |
Description: Value set Decision to Transfer
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1046.286 Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1046.286 |
Value Set |
Description: Value set Observation Services
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1111.143 Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1111.143 |
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Description: Value set Mental Health Diagnosis without Substance Use Disorders
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1046.285 Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1046.285 |
Value Set |
Description: Value set Payer Type
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.114222.4.11.3591 Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.114222.4.11.3591 |
Direct Reference Code |
Display: Male (finding)
Code: 248153007 System: http://snomed.info/sct |
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Display: Female (finding)
Code: 248152002 System: http://snomed.info/sct |
Direct Reference Code |
Display: Emergency room
Code: ER System: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-RoleCode |
Direct Reference Code |
Display: Emergency trauma unit
Code: ETU System: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-RoleCode |
Direct Reference Code |
Display: Patient left without being seen (finding)
Code: 21541000119102 System: http://snomed.info/sct |
Direct Reference Code |
Display: Principal Diagnosis
Code: principal System: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/ex-diagnosistype |
Dependencies | |
Dependency |
Description: QICore model information
Resource: http://hl7.org/fhir/Library/QICore-ModelInfo Canonical URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/Library/QICore-ModelInfo |
Dependency |
Description: Library SDE
Resource: https://madie.cms.gov/Library/SupplementalDataElements|5.1.000 Canonical URL: https://madie.cms.gov/Library/SupplementalDataElements|5.1.000 |
Dependency |
Description: Library FHIRHelpers
Resource: https://madie.cms.gov/Library/FHIRHelpers|4.4.000 Canonical URL: https://madie.cms.gov/Library/FHIRHelpers|4.4.000 |
Dependency |
Description: Library CQMCommon
Resource: https://madie.cms.gov/Library/CQMCommon|4.1.000 Canonical URL: https://madie.cms.gov/Library/CQMCommon|4.1.000 |
Dependency |
Description: Library QICoreCommon
Resource: https://madie.cms.gov/Library/QICoreCommon|4.0.000 Canonical URL: https://madie.cms.gov/Library/QICoreCommon|4.0.000 |
Data Requirements | |
Data Requirement |
Type: Patient
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-patient Must Support Elements: extension, url |
Data Requirement |
Type: Encounter
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-encounter Must Support Elements: type, period, status, status.value, location, location.type, hospitalization, hospitalization.dischargeDisposition, diagnosis, diagnosis.code Code Filter(s): Path: type ValueSet: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1046.279 |
Data Requirement |
Type: Encounter
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-encounter Must Support Elements: type, period, status, status.value, location, location.type, hospitalization, hospitalization.dischargeDisposition, diagnosis, diagnosis.code Code Filter(s): Path: type ValueSet: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1010 |
Data Requirement |
Type: Encounter
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-encounter Must Support Elements: period, location, location.type, hospitalization, hospitalization.dischargeDisposition, type, diagnosis, diagnosis.code |
Data Requirement |
Type: Encounter
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-encounter Must Support Elements: type, period, status, status.value, location, location.type, hospitalization, hospitalization.dischargeDisposition, diagnosis, diagnosis.code Code Filter(s): Path: type ValueSet: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1111.143 |
Data Requirement |
Type: Resource
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Resource Must Support Elements: id, id.value |
Data Requirement |
Type: Location
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-location |
Data Requirement |
Type: ServiceRequest
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-servicerequest Must Support Elements: code, authoredOn, authoredOn.value, intent, intent.value, status, status.value Code Filter(s): Path: code ValueSet: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1046.286 |
Data Requirement |
Type: Claim
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-claim Must Support Elements: status, status.value, use, use.value, item |
Data Requirement |
Type: Condition
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-condition-encounter-diagnosis |
Data Requirement |
Type: Condition
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-condition-problems-health-concerns |
Data Requirement |
Type: Coverage
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-coverage Must Support Elements: type, period Code Filter(s): Path: type ValueSet: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.114222.4.11.3591 |
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