Required Test 7

Program Name: Medicare Eligible Hospital/Critical Access Hospital (EH/CAH)

Measure Objective: Health Information Exchange

2026 Promoting Interoperability Measure: Support Electronic Referral Loops by Sending Health Information:For at least one transition of care or referral, the eligible hospital or CAH that transitions or refers their patient to another setting of care or provider of care: (1) Creates a summary of care record using certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT); and (2) electronically exchanges the summary of care record.

Notes:

1: The scenarios for the Medicare Promoting Interoperability measure require the EH to create and transmit/exchange a summary of care record and to confirm receipt of the transmitted/exchanged summary of care record and submit data for a continuous 180-day period within the calendar year.

2: Test data supply: ONC and Vendor-supplied. ONC provides the Test Data Scenarios and parameters; the Vendor supplies the summary of care records within the parameters.

3: The name of this measure changed from Transitions of Care to Support Electronic Referral Loops by Sending Health Information. No other changes were made to the test data.

4: Starting in 2019, for the Medicare Promoting Interoperability measure a hospital may use any document template within the C-CDA for the purpose of the measure.

Scenarios:

	Denominator Criteria	Numerator Criteria		Results
Patient	Transition of Care or Referral Within Reporting Period	Summary of Care Record (including all CMS required information or indication of none) Created and Transmitted / Exchanged Electronically During Calendar Year	Receipt of Summary of Care Record Confirmed During Calendar Year	Records Total
Thelma Jensen 6/16/1966 Sex: F	Within	Yes	No	0
Lorraine Sims 7/26/1987 Sex: F	Within	No	No	0
Nina Spencer 12/23/1984 Sex: F	Within	No	No	0
Maurice Cobb 9/19/1982 Sex: M	Within	Yes	Yes	1
Minnie Saunders 8/10/1967 Sex: F	Within	Yes	Yes	1
			Cumulative Total	2

No actions are required for this scenario

	Denominator Criteria	Numerator Criteria		Results
Patient	Transition of Care or Referral Within Reporting Period	Summary of Care Record (including all CMS required information or indication of none) Created and Transmitted / Exchanged Electronically During Calendar Year	Receipt of Summary of Care Record Confirmed During Calendar Year	Records Total
Everett Ball 6/28/1976 Sex: M	Within	Yes	Yes	1
Clayton Blake 12/20/1978 Sex: M	Within	Yes	Yes	1
Ida Brown 9/20/1983 Sex: F	Within	Yes	Yes	1
Maurice Cobb 9/19/1982 Sex: M	Within	Yes	Yes	1
			Cumulative Total	6