eCQM Content CMS Implementation Guide
2025.7.1 - CI Build

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Library: AdultOutpatientEncounters

Official URL: https://madie.cms.gov/Library/AdultOutpatientEncounters Version: 4.19.000
Active as of 2025-06-27 Responsible: National Committee for Quality Assurance Computable Name: AdultOutpatientEncounters
Other Identifiers: https://madie.cms.gov/login#684c51f90d70b65363c69ee0 (use: official, )

This library contains a definition used to identify denominator qualifying encounters.

Knowledge Artifact Metadata
Name (machine-readable) AdultOutpatientEncounters
Title (human-readable) AdultOutpatientEncounters
Status active
Experimental false
Description This library contains a definition used to identify denominator qualifying encounters.
Library Steward National Committee for Quality Assurance
Dependency Description: Library Status
Resource: https://madie.cms.gov/Library/Status|1.15.000
Canonical URL: https://madie.cms.gov/Library/Status|1.15.000
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: Value set Office Visit
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1001
Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1001
Dependency Description: Value set Annual Wellness Visit
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.526.3.1240
Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.526.3.1240
Dependency Description: Value set Preventive Care Services Established Office Visit, 18 and Up
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1025
Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1025
Dependency Description: Value set Preventive Care Services Initial Office Visit, 18 and Up
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1023
Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1023
Dependency Description: Value set Home Healthcare Services
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1016
Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1016
Dependency Description: Value set Virtual Encounter
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1089
Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1089
Dependency Description: Value set Telephone Visits
Resource: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1080
Canonical URL: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1080
Library Metadata
Identifier org.hl7.fhir.r5.model.Identifier@7031f8cf
Version Number 4.19.000
Library Type [http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/library-type#logic-library]
Data Requirement Type: Encounter
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-encounter
Must Support Elements: type, period
Code Filter(s):
Path: type
ValueSet: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1001
Data Requirement Type: Encounter
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-encounter
Must Support Elements: type, period
Code Filter(s):
Path: type
ValueSet: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.526.3.1240
Data Requirement Type: Encounter
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-encounter
Must Support Elements: type, period
Code Filter(s):
Path: type
ValueSet: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1025
Data Requirement Type: Encounter
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-encounter
Must Support Elements: type, period
Code Filter(s):
Path: type
ValueSet: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1023
Data Requirement Type: Encounter
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-encounter
Must Support Elements: type, period
Code Filter(s):
Path: type
ValueSet: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1016
Data Requirement Type: Encounter
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-encounter
Must Support Elements: type, period
Code Filter(s):
Path: type
ValueSet: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1089
Data Requirement Type: Encounter
Profile(s): http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/StructureDefinition/qicore-encounter
Must Support Elements: type, period
Code Filter(s):
Path: type
ValueSet: http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1080
Library Content
CQL Content 
library AdultOutpatientEncounters version '4.19.000'

using QICore version '6.0.0'

include FHIRHelpers version '4.4.000' called FHIRHelpers
include QICoreCommon version '4.0.000' called QICoreCommon
include Status version '1.15.000' called Status

valueset "Annual Wellness Visit": 'http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.526.3.1240' 
valueset "Home Healthcare Services": 'http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1016' 
valueset "Office Visit": 'http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1001' 
valueset "Virtual Encounter": 'http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1089' 
valueset "Preventive Care Services Established Office Visit, 18 and Up": 'http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1025' 
valueset "Preventive Care Services Initial Office Visit, 18 and Up": 'http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1023' 
valueset "Telephone Visits": 'http://cts.nlm.nih.gov/fhir/ValueSet/2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1080' 

parameter "Measurement Period" Interval<DateTime>

context Patient

define "Qualifying Encounters":
  ( ( [Encounter: "Office Visit"]
    union [Encounter: "Annual Wellness Visit"]
    union [Encounter: "Preventive Care Services Established Office Visit, 18 and Up"]
    union [Encounter: "Preventive Care Services Initial Office Visit, 18 and Up"]
    union [Encounter: "Home Healthcare Services"]
    union [Encounter: "Virtual Encounter"]
    union [Encounter: "Telephone Visits"] ).isEncounterPerformed() ) ValidEncounter
    where ValidEncounter.period during day of "Measurement Period"
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