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CCE Notes: (And Everyone Else) Bookmarks to Keep You Informed
- NCQA Certified Content Experts (CCE) play a significant role in helping NCQA meet its Recognition Objectives. We’d like to return the favor with these bookmarks that provide the latest information...
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CPC+ Announces Regions – View NCQA directory as a tool!
- On August 1, CMS announced the states and regions selected to participate in the new Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) program. CPC Plus offers a unique opportunity to gain additional...
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HIT Vendors Selected for CPC+ Support
- A strong primary care foundation is critical to improving health. In May, CMS took one step further in their effort to improve primary care with the announcement of the Comprehensive Primary Care...
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The Key to Fewer Readmissions? Engagement and Education – GUEST BLOG
- What is the key to fewer readmissions? The answer has to do with patient engagement and education. The Key to Fewer Readmissions Reducing Hospital Patient Readmissions Raising the quality of patient...
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Max’s Story: A Boy and His Patient-Centered Specialty Practice
- About a month ago, we told you about our Annual Report for 2015. It includes a number of stories about the people we serve. That includes one about a young patient at a NCQA Patient-Centered...
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Strategies for Success Now Free for All Practices
- NCQA offers complimentary resources to recognized practices that can help them make the most of the medical home model of care. For example, our online learning program, Strategies for Success as...
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Public Policy Weekly Clips: August 8, 2016
- NCQA gives a rundown of the best national, state and private sector health care articles from the week. Here are our picks for today’s Public Policy Weekly Clips. National: Sites for the PCMH CPC+...
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Innovative Thinking @QualTalks – Register Today!
- There will be plenty of innovative thinking going on at this year’s Quality Talks. We like to say, “this isn’t your ordinary health care conference.” Quality Talks is different. We have nine...
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New York Times column catches the eye of Peggy O’Kane
- NCQA’s president, Margaret O’Kane, commented on health economist Austin Frakt’s August 9 column in The New York Times. She thinks Mr. Frakt might be overstating the role of quality data in...
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NCQA Comments on Medicare’s draft list for Patient Relationship Categories...
- NCQA is urging CMS to use an automated decision-tree model to determine which patients physicians are responsible for, since they are rated on quality and resource use under the new Merit-Based...
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Quality Improvement (QI) Education Series for Medical Practices
- Why Quality Improvement? More and more, the health care system demands performance data. Practices must review their care delivery system’s strengths on a range of measures, prioritize opportunities...
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Public Policy Roundup
- NCQA gives a rundown of the best national, state and private sector health care articles from the week. Here are our picks for today’s Public Policy Weekly Clips. National: CMS is modifying ACA risk...
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What Makes a Good Medicaid Managed Care Plan?
- What makes a good Medicaid Managed Care plan? Good question. Chelsea Keenan, health reporter at The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa asked NCQA because we are widely known as industry leaders in the...
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Public Policy Roundup
- NCQA gives a rundown of the best national, state and private sector health care articles from the week. Here are our picks for today’s Public Policy Weekly Clips. National: NCQA’s Margaret O’Kane...
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Peggy O’Kane Named to Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in...
- It is with great pride we announce that our president, Margaret E. O’Kane, has been named to Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare 2016. This is Peggy’s 11th year on the...
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New England Journal of Medicine: It’s Time to Transform Care for People with...
- In the July 28, 2016 New England Journal of Medicine, Blumenthal et. al. identified improving care for high-need, high-cost patients as an urgent priority. We agree that understanding diversity,...
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Are You Moving From Volume to Value of Care?
- Are you moving from volume of care to value of care? How do you make that transformation? NCQA knows there’s a lot of help out there for practices looking for guidance, and we can help, too, by...
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MACRA’s Chosen One: PCMH (and PCSP, too)
- If you’ve been keeping up with our blog, you know that NCQA has a special interest in MACRA. Each week, we pinpoint a topic outlined in CMS’ final proposed rule for MACRA’s new payment system. This...
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Once Again, Our Program Is the Model for Quality
- In 1990, Peggy O’Kane founded the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) on the belief that patients deserve safe, high-quality health care. Peggy also believed that doctors should not be...
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Alexandra Drane talks about her presentation at Quality Talks 2016: What’s...
- A self-described “serial entrepreneur,” Alexandra Drane is “pathologically obsessed with the health care space.” She believes that everyday stressors (such as divorce, financial stress, caregiver...
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