As a certified QE, PurpleLab® is proud to publicly report industry-standard measures to make insights into provider performance, including cost and quality data, transparent.
This report highlights one standard measure available as a QE. The measure is all claims-based and looks at three tests within a calendar year to manage diabetic patients at risk of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD):
Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR)
Quantitative Urine Albumin
Urine Creatinine
PurpleLab chose the measure based on the data available in our PurpleLab® CLEAR™ Claims.
Download PurpleLab's 2026 QE Standard Measures Report, based on CMS MIPS Measure Quality ID #488: Kidney Health Evaluation (KHE), below.
Qualified Entity Certification Program (QECP)
The Qualified Entity Certification Program (QECP) was created as part of the Affordable Care Act to facilitate health system improvement using insights from data. The program allows organizations to apply for certification as a Qualified Entity, granting access to CMS claims data for the purpose of combining it with a commercial data set and reporting publicly on health system quality measures.
A Qualified Entity (QE) is an organization permitted to combine Medicare data with other claims data to report on quality measures that can be used to improve the performance of healthcare providers and suppliers. Once certified through the QECP, QEs are eligible to receive standardized extracts of Medicare Parts A, B, and D data.
Measures available to QEs for public reporting are maintained on a list of standard measures by the QECP. To see the current list of standard measures, please visit the QECP website.
In compliance with QECP Rules and Regulations, QEs are required to report on selected standard measures measures annually within one year of receiving the data.
PurpleLab’s measure reporting leverages, combines, and compares two sources of data:
PurpleLab’s comprehensive warehouse of de-identified patient medical and pharmaceutical claims in compliance with HIPAA.
100% of medical claims data received under the QECP for Medicare Parts A, B, D from 2020 through 2024. Please see CMS Research Data and Assistance Center to learn more.
For QE public reporting, PurpleLab adheres to CMS cell suppression policy to protect data privacy.