qpp-measures-data

qpp-measures-data

Quality Payment Program Measures Data Repository

This repository hosts measures data for QPP and supports functionality to import measures data as an NPM module. It currently hosts all Improvement Activity and Advancing Care Information measures, as well as a fraction of Quality measures.

This is the alpha v2 source of truth for QPP measures data. It has been built off a measures data API which is no longer available (qpp.cms.gov/api). This data (qpp-measures-data) reformats some of the data from the v1 measures API and adds some additional information (see scripts/measures/archived/scripts/convert-qpp-to-measures.js for the exact transformations). The transition to using qpp-measures-data as a source of truth for CMS is ongoing and this data may be subject to modifications. We are not guaranteeing stability in the API contract for qpp-measures-data at this time.

How to Use qpp-measures-data

Measures and benchmark data can be accessed by installing the qpp-measures-data NPM repository. The measures data JSON schema is described in measures/$YEAR/measures-schema.yaml. The measures data here combines existing data from the QPP API, with supplementary data found in util. To access measures data without installing the NPM repository, run git clone [e-mail]:CMSgov/qpp-measures-data.git and navigate to measures/$YEAR/measures-data.json.

The benchmarks data JSON schema is described in benchmarks/benchmarks-schema.yaml. To access the benchmarks data without installing the NPM repository, run git clone [e-mail]:CMSgov/qpp-measures-data.git and navigate to benchmarks/. Benchmarks data is organized by performance year. For example, benchmarks/2017.json contains the benchmarks for performance year 2017 (benchmark year 2015).

$YEAR refers to the performance year. For measures data, providing a $YEAR is optional. If omitted, it defaults to 2018.

Note that only quality measures data has been imported for 2018. Other measures are being added soon.

Importing the qpp-measures-data module

Functions take a string version argument and return the appropriate YAML schema or JSON data. The module can be used with the following pattern:

const qppMeasuresData = require('qpp-measures-data');
const measuresData = qppMeasuresData.getMeasuresData($YEAR);
const measuresSchema = qppMeasuresData.getMeasuresSchema($YEAR);
const benchmarksData = qppMeasuresData.getBenchmarksData();
const benchmarkData$YEAR = benchmarksData[$YEAR];
const benchmarksSchema = qppMeasuresData.getBenchmarksSchema();

Contributing

Before creating pull requests, please make sure to review CONTRIBUTING.md.