EQRS News Flash: Care Compare Module Now Available

Care Compare Available in EQRS October 31, 2024 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) November Dialysis Facilities Care Compare (DFCC) preview period begins Friday, November 1, 2024, and ends on November 15, 2024.

Your facility or organization’s DFCC Patient Lists and Preview Period Reports will be available for download in a new Care Compare module within the ESRD Quality Reporting System (EQRS). Users may access this module on Thursday, October 31, 2024. These reports will be available for download until the beginning of the January 2025 DFCC preview period.

To access your reports, you will need to first ensure access within EQRS:

• Complete the Healthcare Quality Information System (HCQIS) Access Roles and Profile (HARP) account registration process, if needed, by going to https://harp.cms.gov/login/login.
• Login to the ESRD Quality Reporting System (EQRS) with your HARP account via https://eqrs.cms.gov/globalapp/.

Once logged in to EQRS you will need to request access to one of the new roles created to ensure access in the new Care Compare module.

• Individual facility viewers should request access to the new Facility Care Compare Viewer role.
• Large Dialysis Organization contacts should request access to the new Corporate Care Compare Viewer role.

Steps for requesting access are provided below.

Access for Individual Facility Users Using the Facility Care Compare Viewer Role

Steps 1-4 (See Figure 1)

1. Select the Request Access tab on the left side of the screen.
2. Select Facility as your organizational category.
3. Select Patient Registry as your application.
4. Click the Continue button in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.

Figure 1. Request Access to Patient Registry

1. Select your organization in the Search for Organization box. You can search using CCN, DBA name, or NPI number.
2. In the Role box, select Facility Care Compare Viewer.
3. Click the Submit Request button in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.

Figure 2. Select Facility Care Compare Viewer Role

Access for Large Dialysis Organization Contacts Using the Corporate Care Compare Viewer Role

1. Select the Request Access tab on the left side of the screen.
2. Select Corporation as your organizational category.
3. Select Patient Registry as your application.
4. Click the Continue button in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.

Figure 3. Request Corporate Access to Patient Registry

1. Select your organization in the Search for Organization box.
2. In the Role box, select Corporate Care Compare Viewer.
3. Click the Submit Request button in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.

Figure 4. Select Corporate Care Compare Viewer Role

Accessing Patient Lists and Reports

1. Login to EQRS https://eqrs.cms.gov/globalapp/
2. As shown in Figure 5, click on Reports and select Care Compare from the Reports menu.

Figure 5. Select Care Compare from Reports Menu

3.   As shown in Figure 6, you will now be on the Care Compare Reports landing page with access to patient lists and preview reports.

Figure 6. Care Compare Reports Viewer

4.   Review your patient list(s) and preview report(s).

4. a) If you are a Facility Care Compare Viewer you can select the Patient List or Preview Report option to download whichever report you have selected. Figure 7 illustrates the screen you will see when you select the Patient List option while Figure 8 displays the screen you will see when you select the Preview Report option.

• Click the Download box to obtain your patient list or preview report.

Figure 7. Patient List Download Screen

• Click the Patient List box shown in Figure 6 above to display the facilities for which you can obtain patient lists.
• Click the Export box in the top right corner to export zipped files for all of your facilities’ patient lists.
• If you only want to view the patient lists for specific facilities, click the Download ZIP hyperlink next to each facility whose list you want to review.

Figure 9. Corporate Care Compare Viewer – Download Patient Lists

• Click the Preview Report box shown in Figure 6 above to display the facilities for which you can obtain preview reports.
• As shown in Figure 10, to download reports for individual facilities, click the Download PDF or Download CSV hyperlink to the right of the facility’s name.

Figure 10. Corporate Care Compare Viewer Preview Reports Download Screen

Figure 11. Export Preview Reports