NCQA White Paper: Rheumatoid Arthritis: Transforming Care Delivery to a...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic condition that affects about 1.5 million Americans. Its inflammatory effects include pain, fatigue, stiffness and swollen joints—symptoms...
View ArticleNCQA Speaks: 2020 Medicare Physician Payments
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - The proposed 2020 Revisions to Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Payment Policies are in.—NCQA reached out to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to comment....
View ArticleMeasure Certification: Together. Better.
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Together. Better. Quality improvement is a team sport, and we have the team to prove it. The key players on our team? Organizations who handle all that health care data. More than...
View ArticleLess Spending Better Care: Population-based Global Payment Study
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - As you may know, some insurers established global payments to drive higher quality and lower costs in health care. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine...
View ArticleHealth Plan Accreditation 2020: A Response to Recommendations
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - You should know. You gave us feedback. We listened. Health Plan Accreditation (HPA) 2020 Standards and Guidelines are available. With your guidance and advice, we updated our...
View ArticleNCQA Speaks: 2020 Medicare Physician Payments
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - The proposed 2020 Revisions to Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Payment Policies are in.—NCQA reached out to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to comment....
View ArticleMeasure Certification: Together. Better.
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Together. Better. Quality improvement is a team sport, and we have the team to prove it. The key players on our team? Organizations who handle all that health care data. More than...
View ArticleHealthcare Quality Congress 2019
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Dallas delivered a quality time. NCQA’s Director of HEDIS Policy Cindy Ottone framed it from the podium. The Health Care Quality Congress is a HEDIS-geek safe zone. There were...
View ArticleAward Winners: Innovation All-Stars
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Change in quality calls for innovation. And innovation deserves recognition. That’s why we’re awarding three teams from across the country with our inaugural NCQA Innovation...
View ArticleState Briefing: HPA 2020 and HEDIS Changes
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Last week, NCQA’s State Affairs Department held a briefing for state officials on upcoming changes to Health Plan Accreditation (HPA) 2020 and the Healthcare Effectiveness Data...
View ArticlePatient-Centered Connected Care in New York, New Jersey, and Washington
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - With over 120 sites, CityMD is the leading urgent care provider in the New York metropolitan area and has earned NCQA Patient-Centered Connected Care Recognition for all of its...
View ArticleResearch Update: Antipsychotics, Adolescents and Teens
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Our team of researchers did it again. The American PsychiatricAssociation’s journal, Psychiatric Services, recently published their work. Of course, we want to congratulate Serene...
View ArticleInside Health Care Episode #022: Dr. Daniel Alford, SCOPE of Pain
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We are facing a national crisis. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, each day more than 130 people in the United States die from an opioid overdose. How are health...
View ArticleFamily Health Costs Rising Fast
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Family health care costs are on the rise. According to a Kaiser Health Foundation analysis, families are contributing 67% more to their health benefits than they did 10 years ago....
View ArticleHealth Plan Accreditation 2020: Scoring
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Who’s keeping score? No worries, it’s way easier now. Simplify Scoring There use to be confusion around which score matters. Is it the Health Plan Ratings score or the...
View ArticleHealthcare Quality Congress 2019
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Dallas delivered a quality time. NCQA’s Director of HEDIS Policy Cindy Ottone framed it from the podium. The Health Care Quality Congress is a HEDIS-geek safe zone. There were...
View ArticleAward Winners: Innovation All-Stars
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Change in quality calls for innovation. And innovation deserves recognition. That’s why we’re awarding three teams from across the country with our inaugural NCQA Innovation...
View ArticlePatient-Centered Connected Care in New York, New Jersey, and Washington
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - With over 120 sites, CityMD is the leading urgent care provider in the New York metropolitan area and has earned NCQA Patient-Centered Connected Care Recognition for all of its...
View ArticleState Briefing: HPA 2020 and HEDIS Changes
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Last week, NCQA’s State Affairs Department held a briefing for state officials on upcoming changes to Health Plan Accreditation (HPA) 2020 and the Healthcare Effectiveness Data...
View ArticleApervita: A Report from Quality Congress
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Quality is in the eye of the beholder. NCQA’s Health care Quality Congress is an experience that no health care professional should miss. Quality improvement health plan...
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