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Annual ESRD QIP Preview Period Open The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) End-Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program (ESRD QIP) reminds you that the Payment Year (PY) 2021 ESRD QIP Preview Period will end Aug. 31 at 11:59 p.m., PT.

Next Steps CMS recommends that every organization take the following steps:  Facility or Corporate Viewers and Points of Contact (POCs) should access and review the facility’s Preview Performance Score Report (PSR), available through the ESRD QIP User Interface (UI) in the ESRD Quality Reporting System (EQRS). Facility and Corporate POCs should submit inquiries regarding the facility’s PY 2021 scores before the Preview Period concludes. Inquiries CMS will evaluate all inquiries and make any necessary adjustments to facility measure scores before finalizing Total Performance Scores and applicable payment reductions. Facilities will continue to receive responses to their inquiries via the ESRD QIP UI in EQRS after the close of the Preview Period.

Learn More To learn more about ESRD QIP and the PY 2021 Preview Period, please visit the ESRD QIP section of QualityNet.org. For more information on using the EQRS system—including user role requests, downloading Preview PSRs, and submitting inquiries—please refer to the Previewing Your Facility’s PY 2021 Performance Data webinar materials. For further assistance regarding the information contained in this message, please contact the ESRD QIP Support Team using the ServiceNow Q&A Tool.

This newsletter was prepared and distributed by Qsource ESRD Networks, 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 and HHSM-500-2016-00012C). The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy. 20.Q-ESRD.06.085

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