URSA-QUALITY-ACP: Advance Care Planning (ACP)
  • 28 Jun 2025
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Measure Description

The percentage of adults 66–80 years of age with advanced illness, an indication of frailty or who are receiving palliative care, and adults 81 years of age and older who had advance care planning in the last 12 months.

Metadata

  • Measure Type: Rate Measure
  • Temporal Structure: Entity
  • Component Class: Long-Form
  • Denominator Case Field: Patient ID, Output NCQA Payer Type Code
  • Target Direction: Up

Denominator Description

Patients aged 66 years and older as of the snapshot date

Numerator Description

Qualifying denominator patients who had advance care planning in the last 12 months.

Published Fields

  • Data Model Keys

    • Measure ID
    • Patient ID
    • Primary Payor ID
    • Primary Plan ID
  • Patient Fields

    • Patient Operational ID
    • Patient Date of Birth
    • Patient Age Integer
    • Is Patient Sex Female
    • Is Patient Sex Male
    • Patient State Abbreviation
    • Patient ZIP Code 5-Digit
  • Date Fields

    • Current Continuous Primary Payor Membership Episode Start Date
    • Current Continuous Primary Payor Membership Episode End Date
    • Segment Start Date -- The start date of the reporting segment. (See also [URSA-CORE] Reporting Segment)
    • Segment End Date -- The end date of the reporting segment. (See also [URSA-CORE] Reporting Segment)
    • Snapshot Date -- The date, evaluated at 00:00:00 AM, giving the moment the state of the world will be set to for the purposes of an analysis. The snapshot date does not represent the freshness of the data, or the date in real time at which an analysis was executed.
  • Provider Fields

    • Primary Plan Attributee Provider ID
    • Primary Plan Attributee Provider Description
    • Primary Plan Attributee Primary NUCC Provider Taxonomy Description
  • Insurance Fields

    • Primary Payor Description
    • Primary Plan Description
    • Primary Plan Financial Class Description
  • Denominator Fields

    • Is Denominator Event Criteria Met
    • Is Eligible Population
    • Is Continuous Membership Criterion Met
    • Is Any Required Exclusion
    • Is Required Exclusion for Hospice
    • Is Required Exclusion for Patient Death
    • Denominator Event Category
  • Numerator Fields

    • Numerator Document Effective Date
    • Numerator Document ID
    • Numerator HCPCS Code
    • Numerator HCPCS Description
    • Numerator ICD-10-CM Code
    • Numerator ICD-10-CM Description
    • Numerator Service SNOMED CT Code
    • Numerator Source ID
    • Is Numerator Qualifying Using Standard End-of-Year Timing
    • Numerator Component Contribution Using Standard End-of-Year Timing
  • Metadata Fields

    • Is Parameter Set to Override Continuous Enrollment Criteria
    • Is Parameter Set to Override Payor Criteria
  • Measure Fields

    • Denominator
    • Numerator
  • NCQA Cert Fields

    • Is NCQA Numerator Criteria Met
    • Output NCQA Payer Type Code
    • NCQA Race Code
    • NCQA Ethnicity Code
    • NCQA Gender Code
    • Patient Age Integer Unbounded by Death
  • [No Field Group]

    • Ursa Serial ID

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