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PCSP and Oncology Medical Home: Geared to Get Better
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - There’s got to be a better way. That’s a phrase of frustration for many. At NCQA, it’s always been a call to action. Measurement, our evaluation programs and our research are all...
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Speaking Up for Quality Care: Consumer Advocacy Guide to NCQA
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - It’s safe to say that people who are involved in health care want to see it made better for patients. And consumer advocates agree with NCQA’s goals of improving quality, lowering...
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Quality Congress: It’s Your Turn to Share
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - What an opportunity! You can share success stories and best practices with your peers. You could join a group of the top professionals in the healthcare industry. The Ask We want...
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Measurement Burden: Here’s What We Told the Federal Government
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We know it’s just getting to be too much for too many who want more time to spend with patients. Most agree quality measurement is a noble and necessary endeavor. Still for some,...
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UPDATE: PCMH Standards and Guidelines
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Every so often, we update our standards and guidelines to clarify guidance, revise resources and refine expectations. Just like health care quality, we believe we should improve...
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Inside Health Care #011 Dr. Ted Abernathy’s Patient-Centered Medical...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Dr. Ted Abernathy In this edition of our podcast, Inside Healthcare, NCQA traveled to Midlothian, Virginia, to speak to Dr. Ted Abernathy, founder of Pediatric and Adolescent...
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Fellowship to Boost Health Care Quality and Your Career
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - When I started here at NCQA four years ago, it was a dark time. You could forgive my new colleagues for being a little down. They’d lost a seasoned researcher and, more...
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Suicide and Overdoses are Making our Lives Shorter: How Can we Fix This?
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - What does it mean to be healthy? Does it mean going to the doctor regularly? Proper Nutrition? Making sure to take your medication on time? While in many ways the health care...
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Alcohol Screening: A Measure that Matters
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Alcohol Screening: What We Know We all know someone who has struggled with alcoholism. Now, consider this: The majority of adults who drink excessively are not dependent on...
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Inside Health Care #12 Andrew Anderson NCQA’s Phyllis Torda Health Care...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - In this episode of our podcast, Inside Health Care, NCQA Director of Communications, Matt Brock, spoke with Andrew Anderson, NCQA’s Phyllis Torda Health Care Quality Fellowship...
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Inside Health Care #013-Paul Gionfriddo, Mental Health America
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - It’s hard for me to remember a time when I wasn’t struggling with mental health issues. It’s even harder for me a remember a time when I wasn’t ashamed to talk about it. Even now,...
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NCQA Public Sector Briefing: HEDIS 2020 Proposed Changes
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - NCQA’s Healthcare Effectiveness and Data Information Set (HEDIS®) is one of health care’s most widely used performance improvement tools. 190 million people are enrolled in plans...
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NCQA recognized SBMH!
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Have you been inside a school recently? There’s a new calculus the curriculum. Many school systems—many communities—address far more than their students’ instructional needs. The...
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Alzheimer’s and Dementia Facts: A Stolen Post from NCQA’s Employee Newsletter
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - I stole this post. I admit it. I stole it from our own folks, though, so I’m not sure if it qualifies as really stolen. But this juice is worth the squeeze, if for no other reason...
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New York State PCMH: Continuing to Gain Steam
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Last spring, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), in collaboration with NCQA, launched the New York State Patient-Centered Medical Home (NYS PCMH) Recognition...
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Tracking Immunizations with New Measures to Make a Difference
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Measuring health care leads to improvement, and improving health care quality is what NCQA is all about. We assess health care quality with measures that are relevant,...
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Can’t Miss Seminar for Mental Health Awareness Month: Behavioral Health...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - May is Mental Health Awareness Month. And we have a seminar you can’t miss. I’m looking at you if your work as or with: Primary care, specialty and community center practice...
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LTSS Update: The Next Phase in LTSS Performance Measures
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - The phrase “You can’t improve what you can’t measure” makes sense. Consider that theme the driving force behind the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) effort to...
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New York State PCMH Raises the Bar: Program Adoption Sees BIG Increase!
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - At NCQA, we support investing in primary care as one of the best ways to improve health care. Fortunately, the folks with the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) agree....
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Where will the Digital Measures Roadmap lead?
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - If you could look into the future of health care, what would you see? Better quality? Less burdensome measurement and reporting for providers and health plans? More efficient,...
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