REMINDER: ESRD QIP PY 2022 Preview Period Closing

December 16, 2021

REMINDER:

The End Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program (ESRD QIP) Payment Year (PY) 2022 preview period ends on Monday, December 20, 2021, at 11:59 p.m., Pacific Time (PT). Facility and/or Corporate Viewers and Point of Contacts (POCs) should access and review their facility’s Preview Performance Score Report (PSR), available through the ESRD QIP User Interface (UI) in the ESRD Quality Reporting System (EQRS). POCs should submit inquiries regarding their facility’s PY 2022 preview period reports before the preview period concludes.

If CMS requests additional information for unresolved inquiries, POCs should use the ESRD QIP UI to promptly review and respond to the request(s). POCs may receive responses to their inquiries after the preview period ends. POCs must check on the status of their inquiries via the ESRD QIP UI until the inquiries are flagged as “Closed.”

To learn more about the ESRD QIP and the PY 2022 preview period, please visit
the ESRD QIP section of QualityNet.org. For more information on using EQRS—including user role requests, downloading Preview PSRs, and submitting inquiries—please refer to the November 2021 Town Hall webinar materials. For further assistance regarding the information contained in this message, please contact the ESRD QIP Support Team using the QualityNet Q&A Tool.

If you are having technical issues with accessing reports in the ESRD QIP UI, please contact the QualityNet Service Center. The QualityNet Service Center is open Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) and can be reached via phone at: (866) 288-8912 or via email at: qnetsupport-esrd@hcqis.org.