PY 2025 ESRD QIP Preview Period Starts in One Week

July 9, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reminds you that the Payment Year (PY) 2025 End Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program (ESRD QIP) Preview Period is scheduled to open on Monday, July 15, 2024, and close on Thursday, August 15, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time.

When the Preview Period Opens:

To view your facility or organization’s ESRD QIP scores, reports, and inquiries as a Facility Viewer or Facility or Corporate Point of Contact (POC), you should:

• 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.
• Log in to the ESRD Quality Reporting System (EQRS) with your HARP account via https://eqrs.cms.gov/globalapp/.
• Review the applications listed on the My Access screen in EQRS for “QIP.”
• Request and/or verify that the ESRD QIP role is active in EQRS. You can access training materials for these steps at: https://mycrownweb.org/harp-training/.

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CMS strongly recommends EQRS users log into EQRS NO LATER THAN July 15, 2024, to verify that their EQRS role is active. Following this recommendation will help ensure necessary access during the ESRD QIP preview period. 

To login and verify your EQRS role click here: https://eqrs.cms.gov/globalapp/

During the PY 2025 ESRD QIP Preview Period:
CMS recommends that every organization take the following steps:

• Facility Viewers and Facility and Corporate POCs should review their facility’s preview Performance Score Report (PSR), which is available through the ESRD QIP user interface (UI) in EQRS.
• POCs should submit inquiries about their facility’s PY 2025 preview scores before the preview period concludes.

CMS will evaluate all inquiries and make any necessary adjustments to facility PSRs. Facilities will continue to receive responses to their inquiries via the ESRD QIP UI in EQRS after the close of the preview period.

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More information on using EQRS including what is new, how to access my report, and how to submit questions will be covered in the July 16, 2024, Preview Period Webinar. For assistance regarding the information in this message, please contact the ESRD QIP Team using the QualityNet Question & Answer Tool.

If you are having technical issues with accessing reports in the ESRD QIP UI, please contact the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) Service Center. The CCSQ Service Center is open Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern Time and can be reached via phone at (866) 288-8912, email at qnetsupport-esrd@cms.hhs.gov, or by going to CCSQ Support Central.