Clinical Episode definition
Examples of Clinical Episode in a sentence
If the date of completion for the Anchor Procedure occurs on or after the effective date of termination, or the Clinical Episode is a COVID-19 Clinical Episode, the Participant will not be held accountable for the Clinical Episode for purposes of Reconciliation or the Post- Episode Monitoring Spending Calculation.
If the date of discharge from the Anchor Stay occurs on or after the effective date of termination, or the Clinical Episode is a COVID-19 Clinical Episode, the Participant will not be held accountable for the Clinical Episode for purposes of Reconciliation or the Post-Episode Monitoring Spending Calculation.
The AFP for each Clinical Episode is Winsorized at the 1st and 99th percentiles of the standardized AFP at the MS-DRG/APC-fiscal year level, during both the baseline year and the Performance Period in accordance with Appendix A of this Agreement.
Performance on these measures for each Clinical Episode by the Participant, if the Participant is a provider or supplier, as well as by Downstream Episode Initiators and Participating Practitioners, will be used to calculate the CQS and CQS Adjustment Amount for the Participant and, if the Participant is a Convener Participant, for each of the Participant’s Downstream Episode Initiators in the manner specified in Appendix A of this Agreement.
The Participant commits to identifying at least one Clinical from the Clinical Episode List.
If the date of discharge from the Anchor Stay occurs on or after the effective date of termination, the Participant will not be held accountable for the Clinical Episode for purposes of Reconciliation or the Post-Episode Monitoring Spending Calculation.
The performance period for this Agreement (“Agreement Performance Period”) is the only period of time during the Agreement Term during which a Clinical Episode may initiate.
A preliminary Episode Initiator-specific benchmark price for the Post-Episode Spending Monitoring Period will be calculated in the same manner as for the Episode Initiator-specific Target Prices calculated for each Clinical Episode, as described above.
CMS will provide the Participant with Target Price files on at least an annual basis, which will contain simple workbooks that display the preliminary Episode Initiator-specific Target Prices for each Clinical Episode.
The post-episode benchmark is calculated by applying the national Clinical Episode growth rate to the baseline.