{"identifier":"0d44beb9-e22f-4b42-9f4d-fa26da2034c8","data":{"title":"Managing Clinician Aggregation Group Performance Data Dictionary","fields":[{"name":"AGG_ID","label":"Aggregation Group ID","description":"The Aggregation Group ID. Within the same Hospital Referral Region, Managing Clinicians in the same group practice are aggregated based on practice Tax Identification Numbers. Managing Clinicians who are affiliated with multiple group practices are aggregated to multiple aggregation groups based on corresponding practice Tax Identification Numbers. Solo practitioners are not aggregated with other Managing Clinicians but will have their own aggregation group ID."},{"name":"HRR_NUM_MY","label":"Hospital Referral Region number","description":"The Hospital Referral Region number during the Measurement Year."},{"name":"HDR_MY","label":"Home Dialysis Rate for both achievement and improvement\nscores","description":"For Measurement Year 1 and Measurement Year 2, the Home Dialysis Rate for an aggregation group is the percent of attributed ESRD beneficiary months in which ESRD beneficiaries received dialysis at home or self-dialysis in-center during the Measurement Year. For Measurement Year 3 through Measurement Year 10, the Home Dialysis Rate for an aggregation group is the percent of attributed ESRD beneficiary months in which ESRD beneficiaries received dialysis at home, or self-dialysis in-center or nocturnal in-center dialysis. The same Home Dialysis Rate is used for achievement scoring and improvement scoring.","comment":"If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"HDR_DNM_MY","label":"Number of ESRD beneficiary-months included in the Home DialysisRate denominator","description":"The Home Dialysis Rate\u0027s denominator is the number of attributed ESRD beneficiary months at the aggregation group level during the Measurement Year.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"HDR_NUM_MY","label":"Number of ESRD beneficiary-months included in the Home DialysisRate numerator","description":"For Measurement Year 1 and Measurement Year 2, the Home Dialysis Rate\u0027s numerator is the number of home dialysis treatment beneficiary months for attributed ESRD beneficiaries during the Measurement Year plus one half the total number of self-dialysis in-center treatment beneficiary months. For Measurement Year 3 through Measurement Year 10, the Home Dialysis Rate\u0027s numerator is the number of home dialysis treatment beneficiary months for attributed ESRD beneficiaries during the Measurement Year, plus one half the total number of self-dialysis in-center beneficiary months, plus one half the total number of nocturnal in-center dialysis beneficiary months.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9998\u0022 indicates small cell suppression where the data value was less than 11 and greater than 0. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"HD_NUM_MY","label":"Number of home dialysis beneficiary-months","description":"The number of months during which attributed ESRD beneficiaries received maintenance dialysis at home.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9998\u0022 indicates small cell suppression where the data value was less than 11 and greater than 0. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"SD_NUM_MY","label":"Number of in-center self dialysis beneficiary-months","description":"The number of months during which attributed ESRD beneficiaries received self-dialysis in-center.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9998\u0022 indicates small cell suppression where the data value was less than 11 and greater than 0. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"NOCD_NUM_MY","label":"Number of nocturnal in center dialysis beneficiary months","description":"The number of months during which attributed ESRD beneficiaries received nocturnal in-center dialysis. This variable is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9998\u0022 indicates small cell suppression where the data value was less than 11 and greater than 0. A value of \u0022-9997\u0022 indicates a variable that is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"TR_MY_ACHSCR","label":"Transplant rate used to calculate achievement score","description":"The Transplant Rate for an aggregation group of Managing Clinicians is the sum of the Transplant Waitlist Rate and Living Donor Transplant Rate. The Transplant Rate displayed here is used for achievement scoring. For transplant, the achievement scoring rate differs slightly from the improvement scoring rate due to differences in reference population groups used for risk adjusting transplant waitlist rates in the Measurement Year.","comment":"If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"TR_MY_IMPSCR","label":"Transplant rate used to calculate improvement score","description":"The Transplant Rate for an aggregation group of Managing Clinicians is the sum of the Transplant Waitlist Rate and Living Donor Transplant Rate. The Transplant Waitlist Rate and Living Donor Transplant Rate do not include beneficiary months from beneficiaries who are 75 years of age or older at any point during the month. For Measurement Year 3 through Measurement Year 10, the Transplant Waitlist Rate and Living Donor Transplant Rate also do not include beneficiary months from beneficiaries who had a vital solid organ cancer diagnosis and were receiving treatment with chemotherapy or radiation for vital solid organ cancer during the Measurement Year. The Transplant Rate displayed here is used for improvement scoring. For transplant, the achievement scoring rate differs slightly from the improvement scoring rate due to differences in reference population groups used for risk adjusting transplant waitlist rates in the Measurement Year.","comment":"If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"TWR_DNM_MY","label":"Number of ESRD beneficiary-months included in the TransplantWaitlist Rate denominator","description":"The Transplant Waitlist Rate\u0027s denominator is the number of attributed ESRD beneficiary months at the aggregation group level during the Measurement Year.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"TWR_NUM_MY","label":"Number of ESRD beneficiary-months included in the TransplantWaitlist Rate numerator","description":"The Transplant Waitlist Rate\u0027s numerator is the number of attributed ESRD beneficiary months at the aggregation group level during the Measurement Year for which attributed ESRD beneficiaries were on the kidney transplant waitlist.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9998\u0022 indicates small cell suppression where the data value was less than 11 and greater than 0. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"LDT_DNM_L_MY","label":"Number of ESRD beneficiary-months included in the Living DonorTransplant rate denominator","description":"The number of attributed ESRD beneficiary months included in the Living Donor Transplant Rate denominator. The Living Donor Transplant Rate\u0027s denominator is the sum of the number of attributed ESRD beneficiary months and, if applicable, Pre-emptive Living Donor Transplant beneficiary months at the aggregation group level during the Measurement Year. A Pre-emptive Living Donor Transplant beneficiary is a beneficiary who received a kidney transplant from a living donor prior to beginning dialysis.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"LDT_NUM_L_MY","label":"Number of Living Donor Transplant beneficiary-months includedin the Living Donor Transplant rate numerator","description":"Beneficiary months for Living Donor Transplant beneficiaries included in the numerator of the Living Donor Transplant rate for an aggregation group of Managing Clinicians are the sum of the number of months between the beginning of the Measurement Year up to and including the month of the transplant for each attributed Living Donor Transplant beneficiary in an aggregation group.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9998\u0022 indicates small cell suppression where the data value was less than 11 and greater than 0. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"LDT_NUM_R_MY","label":"Number of Pre-emptive Living Donor Transplant beneficiary-months included in the Living Donor Transplant ratenumerator or denominator","description":"Beneficiary months for Pre-emptive Living Donor Transplant beneficiaries included in the numerator or denominator of the Living Donor Transplant rate for an aggregation group of Managing Clinicians are the sum of the number of months between the beginning of the Measurement Year up to and including the month of the transplant for each attributed Pre-emptive Living Donor Transplant beneficiary in the aggregation group.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9998\u0022 indicates small cell suppression where the data value was less than 11 and greater than 0. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"BENECNT_LDT_MY","label":"Number of Living Donor Transplant beneficiaries","description":"The number of Living Donor Transplant beneficiaries during the Measurement Year.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9998\u0022 indicates small cell suppression where the data value was less than 11 and greater than 0. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"BENECNT_PMP_MY","label":"Number of Pre-emptive Living Donor Transplant beneficiaries","description":"The number of Pre-emptive Living Donor Transplant beneficiaries during the Measurement Year.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9998\u0022 indicates small cell suppression where the data value was less than 11 and greater than 0. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"HEI_HDR","label":"Health Equity Incentive for Home Dialysis Improvement Score","description":"From Measurement Year 3 onwards, CMS incentivizes ETC Participants to decrease disparities in the Home Dialysis Rate and the Transplant Rate between beneficiaries who are dual-eligible or Low-Income Subsidy recipients (DE\/LIS) and those who are not by adding a Health Equity Incentive to the improvement scoring methodology. An ETC Participant earns the Health Equity Incentive for the Home Dialysis Rate improvement score if the Home Dialysis Rate for the Measurement Year is at least 2.5 percentage points higher than the corresponding Benchmark Year rate for attributed ESRD beneficiaries who are dual-eligible or DE\/LIS. If the ETC Participant earns the Health Equity Incentive for the Home Dialysis Rate improvement score, CMS adds 0.5 points to the ETC Participant\u0027s Home Dialysis Rate improvement score. This variable is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards.","comment":"A value of \u0022-9997\u0022 indicates a variable that is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"HDR_DELIS_DIFF","label":"Health Equity Incentive Home Dialysis Rate Difference Between BY and MY","description":"The difference between the Benchmark Year and Measurement Year in the Home Dialysis Rate for attributed ESRD beneficiaries who are dual eligible or Low Income Subsidy recipients (DE\/LIS). This variable is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards.","comment":"A value of \u0022-9997\u0022 indicates a variable that is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"HDR_DELIS_MY","label":"Health Equity Incentive Home Dialysis Rate in the MY","description":"The Home Dialysis Rate in the Measurement Year for attributed ESRD beneficiaries who are dual eligible or Low Income Subsidy recipients (DE\/LIS). This variable is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards.","comment":"A value of \u0022-9997\u0022 indicates a variable that is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"HDR_DNM_DELIS_MY","label":"Number of DE\/LIS beneficiary-months included in the Health Equity Incentive Home Dialysis Rate denominator","description":"The Health Equity Incentive Home Dialysis Rate\u0027s denominator is the number of attributed ESRD beneficiary months at the aggregation group level during the Measurement Year for attributed ESRD beneficiaries who are dual eligible or Low Income Subsidy recipients (DE\/LIS). This variable is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9997\u0022 indicates a variable that is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"HDR_NUM_DELIS_MY","label":"Number of DE\/LIS beneficiary-months included in the Health Equity Incentive Home Dialysis Rate numerator","description":"The Health Equity Incentive Home Dialysis Rate\u0027s numerator is the number of home dialysis treatment beneficiary months, plus one half the total number of self-dialysis in-center treatment beneficiary months, plus one half the total number of nocturnal in-center dialysis treatment beneficiary months during the Measurement Year, for attributed ESRD beneficiaries who are dual eligible or Low Income Subsidy recipients (DE\/LIS). This variable is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9998\u0022 indicates small cell suppression where the data value was less than 11 and greater than 0. A value of \u0022-9997\u0022 indicates a variable that is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"HEI_TR","label":"Health Equity Incentive for Transplant Improvement Score","description":"From Measurement Year 3 onwards, CMS incentivizes ETC Participants to decrease disparities in the Home Dialysis Rate and the Transplant Rate between beneficiaries who are dual-eligible or Low-Income Subsidy recipients (DE\/LIS) and those who are not by adding a Health Equity Incentive to the improvement scoring methodology. An ETC Participant earns the Health Equity Incentive for the Home Dialysis Rate improvement score if the Home Dialysis Rate for the Measurement Year is at least 2.5 percentage points higher than the corresponding Benchmark Year rate for attributed ESRD beneficiaries who are dual-eligible or DE\/LIS. If the ETC Participant earns the Health Equity Incentive for the Home Dialysis Rate improvement score, CMS adds 0.5 points to the ETC Participant\u0027s Home Dialysis Rate improvement score. This variable is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards.","comment":"A value of \u0022-9997\u0022 indicates a variable that is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"TR_DELIS_DIFF","label":"Health Equity Incentive Transplant Rate Difference Between BY and MY","description":"The difference between the Benchmark Year and Measurement Year in the Transplant Rate for attributed ESRD beneficiaries who are dual eligible or Low Income Subsidy recipients (DE\/LIS). This variable is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards.","comment":"A value of \u0022-9997\u0022 indicates a variable that is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"TR_DELIS_MY","label":"Health Equity Incentive Transplant Rate in the MY","description":"The Transplant Rate in the Measurement Year for attributed ESRD beneficiaries who are dual eligible or Low Income Subsidy recipients (DE\/LIS). This variable is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards.","comment":"A value of \u0022-9997\u0022 indicates a variable that is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"TWR_DNM_DELIS_MY","label":"Number of DE\/LIS beneficiary-months included in the Health Equity Incentive Transplant Waitlist Rate denominator","description":"The number of dual eligible or Low Income Subsidy recipient (DE\/LIS) beneficiary months at the aggregation group level during the Measurement Year included in the Health Equity Incentive Transplant Waitlist Rate denominator. This variable is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9997\u0022 indicates a variable that is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"TWR_NUM_DELIS_MY","label":"Number of DE\/LIS beneficiary-months included in the Health Equity Incentive Transplant Waitlist Rate numerator","description":"The number of dual eligible or Low Income Subsidy (DE\/LIS) beneficiary months at the aggregation group level during the Measurement Year for which DE\/LIS beneficiaries were on the kidney transplant waitlist. This variable is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9998\u0022 indicates small cell suppression where the data value was less than 11 and greater than 0. A value of \u0022-9997\u0022 indicates a variable that is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"LDT_DNM_L_DELIS_MY","label":"Number of DE\/LIS beneficiary-months included in the Health Equity Incentive Living Donor Transplant Rate denominator","description":"The number of dual eligible or Low Income Subsidy (DE\/LIS) beneficiary months included in the Health Equity Incentive Living Donor Transplant Rate denominator. The Health Equity Incentive Living Donor Transplant Rate\u0027s denominator is the sum of the number of DE\/LIS beneficiary months and, if applicable, Pre-emptive DE\/LIS Living Donor Transplant beneficiary months at the aggregation group level during the Measurement Year. A Pre-emptive Living Donor Transplant beneficiary is a beneficiary who received a kidney transplant from a living donor prior to beginning dialysis. This variable is only applicable in Measurement Year 3 onwards.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9997\u0022 indicates a variable that is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"LDT_NUM_L_DELIS_MY","label":"Number of DE\/LIS beneficiary-months included in the Health Equity Incentive Living Donor Transplant Rate numerator","description":"Dual eligible or Low Income Subsidy recipient (DE\/LIS) beneficiary months for Living Donor Transplant beneficiaries included in the numerator for an aggregation group of Managing Clinicians are the sum of the number of months between the beginning of the Measurement Year up to and including the month of the transplant for each attributed DE\/LIS Living Donor Transplant beneficiary in an aggregation group. This variable is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9998\u0022 indicates small cell suppression where the data value was less than 11 and greater than 0. A value of \u0022-9997\u0022 indicates a variable that is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"LDT_NUM_R_DELIS_MY","label":"Number of DE\/LIS Pre-emptive Living Donor Transplant beneficiary-months included in the Health Equity Incentive Living Donor Transplant Rate numerator or denominator","description":"Dual eligible or Low Income Subsidy recipient (DE\/LIS) beneficiary months for Pre-emptive Living Donor Transplant beneficiaries included in the numerator or denominator of the Health Equity Incentive Living Donor Transplant rate for an aggregation group of Managing Clinicians are the sum of the number of months between the beginning of the Measurement Year up to and including the month of the transplant for each attributed DE\/LIS Pre-emptive Living Donor Transplant beneficiary in the aggregation group. This variable is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards.","comment":"In adherence to the CMS Cell Size Suppression Policy, certain data values are not reported. A value of \u0022-9999\u0022 indicates cell suppression due to an aggregation group not passing the Low-Volume Threshold. A value of \u0022-9998\u0022 indicates small cell suppression where the data value was less than 11 and greater than 0. A value of \u0022-9997\u0022 indicates a variable that is only applicable from Measurement Year 3 onwards. A value of \u00220\u0022 is reported as such. If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"MPS","label":"Modality Performance Score","description":"The Modality Performance Score is a weighted sum of the higher of the achievement score or the improvement score for the ETC Participant\u0027s Home Dialysis Rate and Transplant Rate. For Measurement Year 1 and Measurement Year 2 the MPS=2\u00d7(The higher of the home dialysis rate achievement or improvement score)+(The higher of the transplant rate achievement or improvement score). For Measurement Year 3 through Measurement Year 10, the MPS=2\u00d7(The higher of the home dialysis achievement or (home dialysis improvement score + Health Equity Bonus))+(The higher of the transplant achievement or (transplant improvement score + Health Equity Bonus)).","comment":"If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"PPA","label":"Performance Payment Adjustment","description":"The Performance Period Adjustment (PPA) is an upward or downward payment adjustment that is made on all dialysis claims with claim service dates during the corresponding PPA period based on an ETC Participant\u0027s Home Dialysis Rate and Transplant Rate related performance during the Measurement Year.","comment":"If an ETC Participant changes its organizational status through closure, changes parent affiliation, or did not exist in both the Benchmark Year and the Measurement Year, then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores, MPS, and PPA will be missing. If an aggregation group has fewer than 11 attributed ESRD beneficiary years (132 attributed ESRD beneficiary months), then the home dialysis and transplant performance rates and scores and MPS will still be calculated but the PPA will be missing. Empty cells indicate a missing value."},{"name":"PPA_PERIOD","label":"Performance Payment Adjustment period","description":"The 6-month period during which the payments are adjusted based on ETC Participants\u0027 performance in each Measurement Year.\n\nPPA Period 1: 07\/01\/2022\u201312\/31\/2022\n\tPPA Period 2: 01\/01\/2023\u201306\/30\/2023\n\tPPA Period 3: 07\/01\/2023\u201312\/31\/2023\n\tPPA Period 4: 01\/01\/2024\u201306\/30\/2024\n\tPPA Period 5: 07\/01\/2024\u201312\/31\/2024\n\tPPA Period 6: 01\/01\/2025\u201306\/30\/2025\n\tPPA Period 7: 07\/01\/2025\u201312\/31\/2025\n\tPPA Period 8: 01\/01\/2026\u201306\/30\/2026\n\tPPA Period 9: 07\/01\/2026\u201312\/31\/2026\n\tPPA Period 10: 01\/01\/2027\u201306\/30\/2027\n"},{"name":"MY","label":"Measurement Year","description":"The 12-month period for which achievement and improvement on the home dialysis rate and transplant rate are assessed for the purpose of calculating ETC Participants\u0027 MPS and PPA.\n\nMY1: 01\/01\/2021\u201312\/31\/2021\n\tMY2: 07\/01\/2021\u201306\/30\/2022\n\tMY3: 01\/01\/2022\u201312\/31\/2022\n\tMY4: 07\/01\/2022\u201306\/30\/2023\n\tMY5: 01\/01\/2023\u201312\/31\/2023\n\tMY6: 07\/01\/2023\u201306\/30\/2024\n\tMY7: 01\/01\/2024\u201312\/31\/2024\n\tMY8: 07\/01\/2024\u201306\/30\/2025\n\tMY9:01\/01\/2025\u201312\/31\/2025\n\tMY10: 07\/01\/2025\u201306\/30\/2026\n"}]}}