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## Quality Payment Program Measures Data Repository

This repository hosts measures data for QPP and supports functionality to import
measures data as an NPM module. It currently hosts all Improvement Activity and
Advancing Care Information measures, as well as a fraction of Quality measures.
measures data as an NPM module. All 2018 quality, PI (Promoting Interoperability,
formerly ACI), and IA measures were added as of
[release 1.1.3](https://github.com/CMSgov/qpp-measures-data/releases/tag/1.1.3). QCDR measures will be added later in 2018.

This is the alpha v2 source of truth for QPP measures data. It has been built off a measures data API which is no longer available (qpp.cms.gov/api).
This data (qpp-measures-data) reformats some of the data from the v1 measures
API and adds some additional information (see [`scripts/measures/archived/scripts/convert-qpp-to-measures.js`](scripts/measures/archived/scripts/convert-qpp-to-measures.js)
for the exact transformations). The transition to using qpp-measures-data as a
This is the v2 source of truth for QPP measures data. The previous measures data API is no longer available (qpp.cms.gov/api). The transition to using qpp-measures-data as a
source of truth for CMS is ongoing and this data may be subject to
modifications. We are not guaranteeing stability in the API contract for
qpp-measures-data at this time.
modifications. Stability in the API contract for
qpp-measures-data is prioritized but not guaranteed.

## How to Use qpp-measures-data

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$YEAR refers to the performance year. For measures data, providing a $YEAR is optional. If omitted, it defaults to 2017.

All 2018 quality, PI (Promoting Interoperability, formerly ACI), and IA measures were added as of [release 1.1.3](https://github.com/CMSgov/qpp-measures-data/releases/tag/1.1.3).

### Importing the qpp-measures-data module
Functions take a string version argument and return the appropriate YAML schema or JSON data.
The module can be used with the following pattern:
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