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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 147 / Wednesday, August 4, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
3 Updates Due to Final Administrative Policies
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a Updates Associated With Final Updated Reference to QualityNet System Administrator In section IV.J.1.a of this preamble, we are finalizing our proposal to use the term QualityNet security official instead of QualityNet system administrator. Because this final update will not change the individuals responsibilities, we do not believe there would be any changes to the information collection burden as a result of this update. We also do not believe that removing the requirement for facilities to have an active
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QualityNet security official account to qualify for payment updates will affect burden because we continue to recommend that facilities maintain an active QualityNet security official account.
b Updates Associated With Adoption of Patient-Level Reporting for Certain Chart Abstracted Measures In section IV.J.2.c of this preamble, we are adopting patient-level data submission for the 11 chart-abstracted measures currently in the IPFQR
Program measure set for more details on these measures we refer readers to Table 7. Because submission of
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aggregate data requires facilities to abstract patient-level data, then calculate measure performance prior to submitting data through the QualityNet websites secure portal, facilities must already abstract patient-level data.
Therefore, we do not believe that submitting data that facilities must already calculate through a tool that facilities already have experience using will change provider burden.
d. Overall Burden Summary Table 16 summarizes the estimated burden associated with the IPFQR
Program.
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