Colorectal Cancer Screening
This three-letter acronym for colorectal cancer screening will show up in coop next year on non-compliant patients' check-ins.
What is COL?
This three-letter acronym for breast cancer screening is one of the more straightforward quality acronyms.
What is BCS?
This is the three-letter acronym for the eye exam for patients with diabetes measure.
What is EED?
Many navigators are thankful for this three-letter acronym for osteoporosis management in women who had a fracture.
What is OMW?
TRUE or FALSE: Your work scrubbing the EMR for proxy gaps will decrease the amount of quality chase you have to complete in 2025.
What is TRUE?
This is the patient population (denominator) included in the colorectal cancer screening measure.
What are patients 45-75 years of age?
This subset of the public is the patient population (denominator) included in the breast cancer screening measure.
What are women 50-74 years of age?
You may be watching what you eat if you're part of this patient population (denominator) included in the EED measure.
What are patients 18-75 years of age with diabetes (Type 1 or 2)?
Ouch! This patient population (denominator) included in the OMW measure can't catch a break.
What are women ages 67-85 years of age who suffered a fracture during the measurement year?
This button in coop will change a proxy gap to a "real" gap before we are ready to handle these measures. You shouldn't press it!!!
What is the revert button in coop?
Name one exclusion for the colorectal cancer screening measure.
What is colorectal cancer, total colectomy, hospice/palliative services, or patient expired during the measurement year?
This imaging procedure closes the breast cancer screening quality gap.
What is a mammogram?
(screening, diagnostic, film, digital, digital breast tomosynthesis all count for gap closure)
This is the compliance timeframe for a diabetic eye exam that is positive for diabetic retinopathy.
What is one calendar year (the measurement year)?
Patients in the OMW measure can become compliant via two different routes. Name one.
What is completing a DEXA scan OR picking up prescribed osteoporosis medications?
You scrub a patients chart and find a note from the provider that a patient "completed their mammo and colonoscopy around 2 years ago." That's helpful, but we need the date to be in this format to be able to accept it as evidence.
What is MM/YYYY?
Any of these procedures or labs may count towards gap closure for the colorectal cancer screening measure. There are five total.
What is a Colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, CT colonography, Cologuard (stool-DNA), and FIT/FOBT test?
Name one exclusion for the breast cancer screening measure.
What is bilateral OR double unilateral mastectomy, hospice/palliative care, or patient expired during measurement year?
This is the compliance timeframe for a diabetic eye exam that showed no evidence of diabetic retinopathy.
What is two years (the year of the exam and the following measurement year)?
Many patients may be screened annually regardless.
A patient enters the OMW measure on the date of their fracture. We have _______ months from the fracture date to close the measure before they become non-compliant.
What is 6 months?
For Cologuard results, it is important to record this date for measure compliance, rather than the report date or received date.
What is the specimen collected date or collection date?
These compliance timeframes (in years) for each screening procedure/lab for the colorectal cancer quality measure are varied, but hey, the more complex the longer patients are compliant! There are five.
What is 10 years for colonoscopy, 5 years for flexible sigmoidoscopy, 5 years for CT colonography, 3 years for Cologuard (stool-DNA), and 1 year for FIT/FOBT?
They could have made this compliance timeframe for breast cancer screening at little easier to remember.
What is 27 months (2 years 3 months) prior to the end of the measurement year?
Ex: A 10/2023 mammogram will be compliant through the end of 2025.
While you would think blindness is an exclusion for EED, it's not! Name one exclusion for this measure that is accepted.
What is a Left AND Right (bilateral) Eye Enucleation, polycystic ovarian syndrome, gestational or steroid-induced diabetes, hospice/palliative services, advanced illness/frailty, or patient expired during the measurement year?
TRUE or FALSE: Patients who completed a DEXA scan or were prescribed osteoporosis medications in the 12 months prior to their fracture are excluded from this measure.
What is TRUE?
Bone mineral density testing 24 months prior AND/OR osteoporosis therapy 12 months prior AND/OR active oral Rx to treat osteoporosis 12 months prior
Quality evidence uploads require ALL four of these things to be present for documentation to be compliant.
What is patient name, DOB, screening/exam date, and screening/exam type?