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EQRS Program Issues

As of March 18, 2021



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Status

Program Impact

Technical Issue(s)

Projected Completion Date

Percent Complete

Change

Unable to calculate star ratings for facilities

  •  Star Rating contractor does not have access to data
  •  Incomplete/Inaccurate data in EQRS due to “relaxed” validation rules

8/31/2021

10%

22%

Unable to measure quality for payment adjustment

  •  Data submitters are not able to view and confirm submitted information.
  •  Incomplete/Inaccurate data in EQRS due to “relaxed” validation rules
8/31/202110%

22%

Coverage Termination

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    Inability to update Patient Records

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    Duplicate Patient Records

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    Inability to generate Patient Reports

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    Inability to edit or delete submitted Patient enrollment forms

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    CMS Annual Facility Survey can not be generated or contains erroneous data.

6/1/2021

45%

Unable to accurately report to Congress for formulation of ESRD Network budget

  •  Reports required for researching data discrepancies does not exist. Annual Facility Survey (used for budget formation) is being generated with faulty data.
  •  Slow system response time is preventing completion of the Annual Facility Survey
  •  Outdated Data. Update services intermittently stop but appear to be still running.
6/1/2021

0%

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CMS support contractors are unable to meet contract deliverables and perform a variety of CMS functions (i.e. calculate scores, derive data, generate ICH CAHPS survey, perform evaluations.)


  •  Data extracts used by research organizations and supporting agencies is not available.
  •  Self Service Model for data recipients to access data directly via CMS/OEDA (Office of Enterprise Data & Analytics) Chronic Conditions Warehouse (CCW).  The OEDA contractor performing this work is ResDAC (Research Data Assistance Center) does not currently contain EQRS data.  
  •  Renal Data System (RDS) extract is produced out of EQRS.  The data extraction contains quarterly non-clinical data (aka patient's journey).  Need to have a strategy to get this data into CCW.
8/31/2021

0%

Overpayment of claims

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    Inability to update Patient Records

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    Duplicate Patient Records


100%