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Measuring Quality for People with Complex Needs
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - It’s not an understatement to say the work we do at NCQA impacts health care and—at some point—people’s lives. For those of us who are older or who need specialized care, NCQA is...
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Redesign: A New Way to Earn Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - NCQA is proud to introduce a new version of our Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Recognition program. The redesign aims to save primary care practices time, and help them to...
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Patient Engagement Strategy: Shared Decision Making
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Since 1982 when the President’s Commission first recognized shared decision making (SDM) as a concept, it’s had a healthy evolution—from the creation of the first United States...
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What to Expect on Q-PASS
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - NCQA officially launched the first of many redesigned recognition programs…and we started with PCMH recognition. The biggest change in the PCMH recognition is the move away from a...
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Guest Blog: New Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidance for Health Plans
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Our guest blog authors are Emily Bell, MPH, the associate director of the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable, a coalition supported by the American Cancer Society and the...
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One More Step for Behavioral Health
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - One More Step for Behavioral Health NCQA is proud to stand with other organizations to support measures that improve the Medicare Advantage Star Ratings Program. In a joint letter...
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May is National High Blood Pressure Education Month
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - National High Blood Pressure Education Month National High Blood Pressure Education Month is a time for reflection and action. Reflection to understand the causes, prevention and...
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The American Health Care Act: A Public Policy Update
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - As you know, late last week the U.S House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) on a 217–213 vote. We asked our Public Policy Team to break it down for us....
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Raising Awareness for Mental Health Month
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Why should we raise awareness for Mental Health? A glance at the statistics reveals mental health is a growing concern. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, in...
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Your Medication and How You Take It- Or Don’t
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - “Doctor’s orders!” Those words used to result in strict compliance. But these days, many people are not following them when it comes to taking medication—prompting a worrying...
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Keeping PACE With All Patients
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - PACE—Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly—is a Medicare/Medicaid program that helps people who need nursing home-level care meet their needs in the community, instead of...
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Huddle Up! Helpful Hints to Make the Most of Five Minutes
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - The doors just opened, the phones are ringing and the waiting room is packed. It’s “all hands on deck”—a typical day in most primary care clinics. Before diving in, though,...
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Q-PASS Passes the Test
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - As you know, the recognition redesign was a complete reset of NCQA’s PCMH Recognition program. We changed how practices earn recognition, and how long recognition lasts. The...
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Navigating Through Q-PASS: A Video Tutorial
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We know you’ve heard: Q-PASS is the new way for practices to submit information to NCQA and manage their recognition under the redesigned program. To help our customers through...
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Dear Secretary Price…
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Dear Secretary Price So starts a letter signed by NCQA and nine leading health groups to Department of Health and Human Secretary Tom Price. NCQA joined nine organizations in a...
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Oncology Medical Home Pilot Sites Earn NCQA Recognition
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Seven sites became the first in the country to earn NCQA Oncology Medical Home Recognition. These sites demonstrated excellence in patient-centered oncology care and provided...
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Sharing the Patient-Centered Playbook: A Program for Specialty Practices
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Primary care is the foundation of patient care, but it is a just one part of a complex medical system. Specialty practices act as medical “neighbors” to primary care practices and...
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Helping Those Who Help Others – A Roadmap to Success
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - A Roadmap to Success NCQA has a long history of developing products and programs to meet identified needs in health care — It’s how we drive quality. We are proud to continue that...
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Making Health Care Better
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Making Health Care Better At NCQA, we are all about making health care better – better for patients, better for physicians, better for practices. Better health care all around. We...
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Congratulations Dr. Barbara McAneny
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - All of us at NCQA congratulate Barbara L. McAneny, MD for her election as President of the American Medical Association (AMA). Our President, Peggy O’Kane, sums it up best: “I...
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