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Less 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...
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Health 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...
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Research 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...
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Family 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....
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Health 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...
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HPA 2020: Align Health Plan Accreditation and Ratings
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - As you’ve heard the Health Plan Accreditation (HPA) 2020 Standards and Guidelines are available. And yes, we made changes. Align Health Plan Accreditation and Health Plan Ratings...
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PCMH Congress 2019: Gallery
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We had a great time in Boston last weekend! –And we hope you did too. Were you there? If not, let’s briefly recap. The National Committee for Quality Assurance’s 5th annual...
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Behavioral Health: Employers Mark Your Calendars
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - The World Health Organization has declared October 10 as World Mental Health Day; a day to reflect on how far we’ve come in recognizing mental health as a critical issue....
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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...
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NCQA 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....
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Measure 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...
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Highest-Rated Health Insurance Plans in Georgia
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Each year NCQA rates more than 1,000 health insurance plans in all 50 states. Below is information on the top health insurance plans in Georgia. Health insurance ratings from...
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CCE Notes & News
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - NCQA Launches New Learning Management System (LMS) Have you taken an NCQA online course? It’s all new now. Our new online learning system streamlines, enhances and improves your...
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Health care 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...
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Award 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...
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State 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...
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Patient-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...
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Apervita: 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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Patient-Centered Coordinated Care in Long Island, New York
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - NCQA traveled to Long Island, New York, to learn how New York Cancer & Blood Specialists implement patient-centered care. The practice earned Oncology Medical Home Recognition...
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Why You Need to Ask, “Is this Health Plan Accredited?”
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - When an employer is looking to select a health plan, one of the first questions they ask should be, “Is this health plan accredited?” Accredited Importance While most plans are...
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