Patient's Baseline Group (Low, Medium, High)

This variable is contained in the following files:

SAS Name

BASELINE_GROUP

Patient's baseline group (low, medium, high).

Source: Million Hearts Data Registry

Comments

This field is the stratified CVD risk group derived from the BASELINE_SCORE. For the purposes of the Million Hearts® Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model, CMS defined “high-risk” beneficiaries as individuals with an ACC/AHA 10-year ASCVD risk score of greater than 30%. The ACC/AHA guidelines still hold true that all individuals should have a risk score less than 7.5%. CMS was attempting to intervene on the critically high-risk group. Reference: Million Hearts® Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model FAQs.

Code	Code value
LOW	Low
MEDIUM	Medium
HIGH	High
Null/missing	Null/missing