URSA-QUALITY-AMR: Asthma Medication Ratio (AMR)

Measure Description

The percentage of members 5–64 years of age who were identified as having persistent asthma and had a ratio of controller medications to total asthma medications of 0.50 or greater in the last 12 months. Unadjusted Certified Measure a7e21061-cda2-4145-b0c5-875cf264dbb1

Metadata

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

Denominator Description

Patients 5–64 years of age who were diagnosed with asthma in the 12 months prior to the snapshot date and in the 13-24 months prior to the snapshot date.

Numerator Description

Qualifying denominator patients with a ratio of ≥0.50 of controller medications to total asthma medications.

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