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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Dent Educ. 2019 Jun 24;83(10):1158–1165. doi: 10.21815/JDE.019.123

Table 1.

Original and modified process of care pregnancy dental quality measures

Measure
Measure Description Numerator Denominator
Original DQA measure (claims data) Pregnant women: oral evaluation Unduplicated number of all enrolled women identified as pregnant who received a comprehensive (D0150) or periodic (D0120) oral evaluation. a) Unduplicated number of all enrolled women identified as pregnant.
b) Unduplicated number of all enrolled women identified as pregnant who received at least one dental service.
Revised primary eMeasure
Evaluating the number of pregnant women as patients of record
Women patients aged 15 to 44 years included in the denominator who reported being pregnant in the reporting year of 2015. All women patients aged 15 to 44 years who had a completed dental procedurea (D0100-D9999) in the reporting year of 2015.
Sub eMeasure A
Evaluating the proportion of pregnant patients who received an oral evaluation
Pregnant patients included in the denominator who received a comprehensiveb (D0150) and/or periodic (D0120) oral evaluationb in the reporting year of 2015. All pregnant patients who had a completed dental procedurea (D0100-D9999) in the reporting year of 2015.
Sub eMeasure B
Evaluating the proportion of pregnant patients who received any additional dental services irrespective of comprehensive (D0150) or periodic dental evaluations (D0120)
Pregnant patients who received a dental procedureb categorized into diagnostic (D0100-D0999), preventive (D1000-D1999), restorative (D2000-D2999), endodontics (D3000-D3999), periodontics (D4000-D4999), prosthodontics (D5000-D6999), oral and maxillofacial surgery (D7000-D7999), orthodontics (D8000-D8999), and/or adjunctive general services (D9000-D9999) in the same reporting vear as the denominator.

Note: Denominator excludes patient charts created for virtual patient exercises, inactive patients, manikins, and examination board.

a

In process or completed dental procedure codes

b

Dental procedure codes