Inpatient Quality Reporting Program Requirements
Optimize and manage your entire Inpatient Quality Reporting Program with Medisolv's Hospital Quality Reporting Package.
What is the IQR Program?
The Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program is a quality reporting program established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. It aims to incentivize hospitals to report various quality measures to CMS. Although technically voluntary, hospitals that do not meet the program's requirements face a 25% reduction to their annual Market Basket Update (MBU), making participation practically mandatory for financial sustainability.
The program's primary goal is to improve the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries by ensuring hospitals meet specific quality reporting requirements and penalizing those that do not. The quality measures reported under the IQR Program are publicly available on Care Compare, aiding consumers in making informed healthcare decisions.
What are the reporting deadlines for IQR?
eCQMs
Deadline:
February 28, 2025
Hybrid Measures
Deadline:
October 1, 2025
Chart-Abstracted Measures
Deadline: Quarterly
Aug. 15 & Nov. 15, 2024
Feb 15 & May 15, 2025
Population & Sampling
Deadline: Quarterly
Aug. 1 & Nov. 1, 2024
Feb 1 & May 1, 2025
PRO-PMs
Deadline:
Pre-op (Sept. 30, 2025)
Post-op (Sept. 30, 2026)
Health Equity (Structural & Process) Measures
Deadline:
May 15, 2025
HCAHPS
Deadline: Quarterly
July 3 & Oct. 2, 2024
Jan. 2 & Apr. 2, 2025
DACA
Deadline:
May 15, 2025
HAI/NHSN
Deadline:
HCP Influenza Vax (May 15, 2025)
HCP COVID-19 Vax (Aug. 15 & Nov. 15, 2024, Feb. 15 & May 15, 2025)
How Can Medisolv’s IQR Solution Help You Improve Your Patient Safety & Quality of Care?
Medisolv Hospital Quality Reporting Package is the complete solution for meeting your hospital quality reporting requirements for CMS and The Joint Commission.
- Includes all Medisolv-supported measures within the CMS IQR, OQR, IPFQR and TJC’s ORYX® programs.
- Access to all active eCQMs, Hybrid, SDOH, PRO-PM, and Abstracted measures, plus early access to future CMS-mandated measures.
- SubmissionsPlus® full submission services: Our proactive approach to submission deadlines ensures timely submissions, and our full submission services to CMS and TJC reduces the burden for your Quality team.
- Automatic data stratification by race, ethnicity, gender, and payer
- Unlimited support with your Medisolv Clinical Quality Advisor
- Timely EHR data refresh for near real-time insights to make informed decisions
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