The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announces the immediate removal of the following measure from the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) measure set:
OP-16: Troponin results for Emergency Department acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients or chest pain patients (with Probable Cardiac Chest Pain) received within 60 minutes of arrival.
This measure was adopted for the CY 2013 payment determination with data collection beginning with January 1, 2012 encounters.
They are removing OP-16 from the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting measure set based on patient safety concerns.
CMS announce removal of Removal of Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Measure (OQR) OP- 16: Troponin results for Emergency Department acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients or chest pain patients (with Probable Cardiac Chest Pain) received within 60 minutes of arrival.
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