Plan of care for migraine or cervicogenic headache developed or reviewed

Measure Purpose: Optimize headache management.

The numerator: Patients who had a headache management plan of care for migraine headache or cervicogenic headache* developed or reviewed by the clinician at least once during the 12 month measurement period

*See full specifications for additional details

is divided by

The denominator: All patients diagnosed with migraine headache or cervicogenic headache

Exclusions are removed from the denominator for:

• Patient is cognitively impaired, cannot communicate and no caregiver is available

Key Phrases

Key Phrases you should use to meet this measure include:

• Headache care plan developed
• Headache care plan reviewed

Measure Calculation Example

Dr. Pelletier had 45 patients with migraine and 20 patients with cervicogenic headache between January 1 and December 31 of the measurement year. This is the denominator. No patients were cognitively impaired or unable to communicate. 

Of the 65 patients, 26 of them had their headache care plan updated and three had a headache care plan developed. This is the numerator.

Quality of care = 29/(65-0). Dr. Pelletier has a score of 44% for this measure.