PY 2026 ESRD QIP Preview Period Starts Today

July 15, 2025

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) End Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program (ESRD QIP) payment year (PY) 2026 ESRD QIP Preview Period opened today, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, and will end Friday, August 15, 2024, at 11:59 p.m., Pacific Time (PT).

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/.

CMS strongly recommends EQRS users log into EQRS NO LATER THAN July 15, 2025, 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 2026 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 2026 preview scores before the Preview Period concludes.

For additional information regarding the information displayed in your PSR, you may access the PY 2026 Guide to the ESRD QIP Performance Score Report (PSR) here: https://mycrownweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ESRDQIP_PY-2026-Guide-to-the-PSR_202506_508.pdf.

More information on using the ESRD QIP UI in EQRS including what is new, how to access ESRD QIP reports, and how to submit inquiries will be covered in the July 15, 2025, Preview Period Webinar. Registration information can be found here:

Click HERE to Register

CMS will evaluate all inquiries and make any necessary adjustments to facility scores. Any changes to facility scores will be reflected in the final reports, available in late fall.  Facilities may continue to receive responses to their inquiries via the ESRD QIP UI in EQRS after the close of the Preview Period.

For assistance regarding the information in this message, please contact the ESRD Quality Incentive Program (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.