2021.12.03 EQRS EDI Touchpoint Status Meeting

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Nursing Home  - The sample xml file (eqrs_nursingHome_True_Permanent_Resident_testfile.xml ) for Nursing home has been updated with the correct elements.

• Per Kelly Llewellyn (NRAA), they are aware of the updated XML and their vendor are thrilled

DaVita

• Nathan was following up on the ability to "follow" the EDI Confluence pages
  • Per Melissa Fieldhouse. there is no update at this time but she will follow up with Atlassian (action item)
• Thank you to the team for all their hard work in resolving the timeout issue
• Nathan was following up with the topic - Effective date logic that the effective date is auto populated with current date if they do not send one
  • Scott did brief Lisa and Ahmar and at this time no updates to share
  • Nathan (DaVita) would like to keep on the radar; definitely one of the top 10 on their list that is impactful

FKC

• Thank you to the team for resolving the timeout issue
• FKC still seeing the 20016 error code - multiple patients mapped to org ID
  • Currently triggering with the 401 errors
  • Per Nathan, DaVita is seeing the error as well
  • Per Michael, he is researching; he thought the fixes to the 20016 and 401 errors were already deployed to prod
  • Per Lakshmi, the fix was promoted on 11/9
  • Per Revathy it may be a timing out issue b/c 11/9 is when they start encountering the gateway issues
  • FKC will continue to resubmit their submission files and see if the error is still coming up

DCI

• They tried to submit small clinical and patient files today (12/3) and they failed; they reported to the helpdesk today
• It may be a credentialing issue
• They were successful with submitting files Tuesday and Wednesday
• Lakshmi will check if the credentials for DCI have expired or need to be renewed
  • Per Preston, the DCI credentials are expired in production
  • How can Vlad/DCI know when their credentials are expiring?
    • The expiration of credentials is a security policy
    • They are notified to the email on file
    • Vlad will send Lakshmi the 2 email addresses the email notifications should go to

NRAA

• Per Howard - Since the EDIs will be closing out submissions in February 2022, suggestion to have an agenda item added for future meetings to go through the clinical comply completion for each of the EDIs and see where we are at as a community
  • Scott will talk to Lisa about getting some similar reporting that we had for the 2020 period such as the reports that Diana provided showing the quantity of submissions pending for independent facilities as well as the EDIs
  • Nathan also suggest that we perform an "error analysis" as well to determine the main errors that everyone is encountering and what is triggering these errors
    • Per Scott - CMS does have a feature in their backlog that will provide error reporting; this may be pulled through the UI
    • Per Michael - Nathan may be suggesting a manual report that can be run when they have a meeting with the whole group as the submission 2022 comes to a close.  Michael said he will try to work on it
• Per Howard -  Where are we at with the whole Depression and Mental Health screening?
  • Per Scott - From an ISG perspective, they reviewed the current functionality at the last system demo (recording can be found on the public page)
  • The system has been built based on the requirements provided by the program
  • Feedback from the system demo has been captured and documented, the feedback will be passed on to the program

• The public EDI website (confluence page) has been redesigned for better organization and access to EDI documentation/information.  Link below:
  • Electronic Data Interface Submitters - EQRS Communications Hub - HCQIS Confluence (cms.gov)
• REMINDER: For any issues encountered, send an email to the help desk using the following email address:  qnetsupport-esrd@hcqis.org with URGENT in front of subject line for urgent matters
  • Scott will be working with Shamim to enhance the support process that the EDIs follow with CMS
  • The help desk has some future enhancements coming for Service Now that will help us 
• Question from Nathan - With the turn of year, it's also time for annual attestations
  • As part of the process the EDIs usually get a weekly report of the status of the ICHCAPS attestations
  • This report has come from different contracting groups
  • Per Janet Lea Hutchinson - this is not something the NCC has provided
  • Per Scott - we will need to get back to Nathan on this (action item)