Performance Measure: Patient-Specific Education

Measure: The MIPS ECClosed Eligible Clinician: a Medicare provider who qualifies for MIPS participation must use clinically relevant information from CEHRTClosed Certified EHR Technology, an EHR that conforms to the ONC's Health IT Certification Program criteria and standards to identify patient-specific educational resources and provide electronic access to those materials to at least one unique patient seen by the MIPS eligible clinician.
Denominator The number of unique patients seen by the MIPS eligible clinician during the performance period.
Numerator The number of patients in the denominator who were provided electronic access to patient-specific educational resources using clinically relevant information identified from CEHRT during the performance period.

To be included in the denominator:

  • Patient must be seen by the EC during the performance period

To be included in the numerator:

  • Patient-specific educational resources must be accessed from the encounter during the performance period

AND

  • Acknowledgment that education was provided electronically to the patient must be documented in the encounter dduring the performance period

Patient-specific education resources can be accessed from the following tabs in an encounter:

  • Allergies/Med Hx
  • Flowsheets/Labs > Scanned/E-Labs
  • Assessment
  • Medications
  • Plan/Disposition

To access patient-specific education resources from the Allergies/Med Hx or Medications tab, click (Infobutton) next to the medication name OR click the medication name hyperlink

To access patient-specific education resources from the Flowsheets/Labs > Scanned/E-Labs tab, click in the Pt Ed column for the selected lab result

To access patient-specific education resources from the Assessment tab, click (Infobutton) next to the selected problem OR click in the Pt Ed column for the selected problem

To access patient-specific education resources from the Plan/Disposition tab, click the Patient Education Resources button

  1. Go to Encounter > Plan/Disposition
  2. Select the Education provided electronically checkbox

Use of the patient portal is recommended to send education or URLs to educational resources

  • Patients seen more than once during the performance period will only count once toward the measure.
    • For ECs reporting as a group, a patient seen by more than one EC in the group will only count once toward the measure.

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