Needing Additional Help with Quality Submission, small practice, converting excel to qpp format

[Jessica Nance]

Can you explain how a small group can submit their own quality measures via qpp.cms.gov ? I see that on the site it says that “this upload tool accepts properly formatted QPP Format and QRDA-3 files.” The proper format IS QRDA-3 files correct? Is there a walk through video on this format? We are trying to avoid paying a registry. I am not looking for a video resource of actually submitting the file- I'm looking for how to get my excel spreadsheet in to an acceptable format for CMS.

For a little more understanding, we are a small group with less than 15 providers. We have our measures chosen and we have identified our patients within those measures based on reports our EHR built for us. However, we had to manually abstract who met the numerator, who was excluded, etc. We have all this data in a spreadsheet. How can we aggregate this data from the spreadsheets (excel) in to acceptable CMS format to submit to QPP? We have already completed our IA and we assume ACI will reweight to 0% once we submit our quality data considering we are a small rural practice with less than 15 clinicians and all  visits are hospital and ED based.

We have reached out to our QPP IL contact as well as a contact at QIN-QIO with no answers. Any insight in to this is appreciated.

Regards, 
Jessica N.

[Jessica Nance]

EDIT----------- I have now figured out how to convert Excel to XML. However, when attempting to submit that data on QPP, I get the following errors below. We have the TIN and date of service in the XML as it all carried over from our spreadsheet. Can anyone tell me if there is a template that CMS wants followed specifically? What does invalid submission object mean? What is the entity Type?

Any help is appreciated!

Size	Timestamp	Status	Message
8.7 KB	2018-01-03T21:12:12.674Z	Upload Failed	invalid submission object
8.7 KB	2018-01-03T21:12:12.674Z	Upload Failed	field 'entityType' in Submission is missing
8.7 KB	2018-01-03T21:12:12.674Z	Upload Failed	field 'taxpayerIdentificationNumber' in Submission is missing
8.7 KB	2018-01-03T21:12:12.674Z	Upload Failed	field 'performanceYear' in Submission is missing

[steven....@semanticbits.com]

Hello Jessica,

I would recommend looking here for valid syntax related to submission: https://cmsgov.github.io/qpp-submissions-docs/measurement-sets

[Brad Morton]

On Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 1:37:10 PM UTC-6, Jessica Nance wrote: