Measure Information Form: Healthy Days In The Community For CMS Programs Serving Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees & Medicaid-Only Enrollees

On March 21, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released this measure information form regarding the Healthy Days in the Community measure. The measure tracks the average number of days within a year that beneficiaries are alive and residing in the community without utilizing acute or post-acute health care services. This document discusses measure specifications, time period for the data, definitions for numerators and denominators, risk adjustments, and data interpretation . . .