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FOOTNOTES FOR EHRD PRA OMB

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The following physician specialties will be eligible to participate in the MCMP
demonstration if they provide primary care: general practice, allergy/immunology, cardiology,
family practice, gastroenterology, internal medicine, pulmonary disease, geriatric medicine,
osteopathic medicine, nephrology, infectious disease, endocrinology, multispecialty clinic or
group practice, hematology, hematology/oncology, preventive medicine, rheumatology, and
medical oncology.
2

In addition, the statute requires that one site be “in a state with a medical school with a
Department of Geriatrics that manages rural outreach sites and is capable of managing patients
with multiple chronic conditions, one of which is dementia.”
3

The following physician specialties will be eligible to participate in the EHRD
demonstration if they provide primary care: general practice, allergy/immunology, cardiology,
family practice, gastroenterology, internal medicine, pulmonary disease, geriatric medicine,
osteopathic medicine, nephrology, infectious disease, endocrinology, multispecialty clinic or
group practice, hematology, hematology/oncology, preventive medicine, rheumatology, and
medical oncology.
4

Beneficiaries for whom Medicare is not the primary source of insurance coverage or whose
care is managed by a hospice program will be excluded from the demonstration.
5

We will submit a separate request for OMB clearance for the beneficiary and physician
surveys, since we expect these to be fielded about 36 months after practice enrollment in the
demonstration, starting roughly in June 2012.
6

Most treatment group practices will not yet have completed the first annual OSS, and OSS
data for the control group practices will not be available for the implementation analysis report,
since they will not be collected from control group practices until the second year of the
demonstration.
7

The final site visit report may be delayed if the second round of site visits is postponed.
Contact with practices may be postponed to fully capture the potential effects of the quality
performance payments, which will first be received by practices in the third year of the
demonstration.
8

Completion of the final evaluation report may require an extension to allow for final
collection of quality performance data and claims run out.
9

We cannot present a similar table for the EHRD due to the timing of practice recruiting.

10

The following physician specialties will be eligible to participate in the EHRD if they
provide primary care: general practice, allergy/immunology, cardiology, family practice,
gastroenterology, internal medicine, pulmonary disease, geriatric medicine, osteopathic
medicine, nephrology, infectious disease, endocrinology, multispecialty clinic or group practice,
hematology, hematology/oncology, preventive medicine, rheumatology, and medical oncology.

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For example, in the MCMP Demonstration, practices were recruited by the Quality
Improvement Organizations (QIOs) in the four demonstration states, using relationships built
through CMS’s Doctor’s Office Quality-Information Technology (DOQ-IT) program, in which
practices must participate to be eligible for the demonstration.
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Round 2 interviews are conducted with the same practices that were interviewed in Round