ESRD QIP Final PSRs and PSCs for PY 2020 Now Available Online
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the Payment Year (PY) 2020 End-Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program (ESRD QIP) Final Performance Score Reports (PSR) and Performance Score Certificates (PSC). Authorized facility staff may log onto the ESRD Quality Reporting System (EQRS) to download and save these documents as soon as possible.

Visit the QualityNet website to get more information about:

  • PY 2020 Final PSR
  • PY 2020 PSC
  • Saving Your Facility's Documents
  • Accessing or Understanding Your Reports
December 2019 Town Hall
The ESRD Outreach, Communication, and Training (EOCT) Team is hosting a Town Hall event to help understand the PY 2020 ESRD QIP Final Performance Score Report

Date: Dec. 19
Time: 1 p.m. CT
New CMS Forms
ESRD Medical Evidence Report Medicare Entitlement And/Or Patient Registration (2728) and ESRD Death Notification (2746) Forms have been updated by CMS. Download the new forms which can be found on the CMS website .
Medication Reconciliation
in EQRS/CROWNWeb
CMS has released an updated version of the ESRD Quality Reporting System (EQRS)/CROWNWeb data-collection system. The bulk of this release features enhancements that are designed to support users’ data reporting needs during the 2020 calendar year. 

Included in this system rollout was the insertion of the Medication Reconciliation (MedRec) fields on the Manage Clinical screens in CROWNWeb. CMS adopted the MedRec reporting measure for the ESRD Quality Incentive Program measure set, beginning with Payment Year 2022. The MedRec measure assesses whether a facility has appropriately evaluated a patient’s medications.
MedRec data reporting begins January 2020 for all hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients.

Facilities are currently not required to report MedRec data via EQRS/CROWNWeb. However, the system currently provides users with the ability to review the MedRec fields, in preparation for data reporting in 2020.

For MedRec assistance, please contact the ESRD QIP Support Team using the ESRD QIP Q&A Tool .

If you have questions or concerns regarding use of the ESRD QIP system, please contact the QualityNet Help Desk by email or by calling (866) 288-8912 (7 a.m. to 7 p.m. CT Monday - Friday) . 
This newsletter was prepared and distributed by Qsource ESRD Network 10 under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (contract number HHSM-500-2016-00010C). The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy. 19.Q-ESRD.12.104
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