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Mainstreaming Behavioral Health Care
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Distinction for Behavioral Health Integration Your primary care provider should be the medical professional who knows you best. They are who you see first for check ups or...
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NCQA State Briefing Series: Centralized Credentialing
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - NCQA is excited to announce our fall state briefing series to share insight on our programs supporting quality oversight activities. NCQA experts and guest speakers will provide a...
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MACRA Recognizes Our Patient-Centered Connected Care Practices
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - There’s more good news for our practices in the 2018 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) final rule. The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and Patient-Centered...
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What Can We Learn From a College Essay About Bees?
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - I was in the audience listening to the guest speaker, Dr. John Fleming of ONC, at the NCQA/HL7 Digital Quality Summit on November 1 waiting for my cue to get on stage to kick-off...
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Completing the Redesigned PCMH Recognition
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - You spoke, we listened and in April NCQA launched an updated version of our PCMH Recognition program. The biggest change involves yearly reporting instead of a 3-year recognition...
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Digital Quality Summit 2017
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - The Digital Quality Summit, hosted by NCQA and HL7 on November 1-2 brought together key players in the health IT field and demonstrated emerging technology standards for quality...
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Tough Talk: HEDIS Encourages Life and Death Discussion
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Dr. Kashyap Patel says if there’s one thing that his patients in Rock Hill, South Carolina and Lancaster, South Carolina have in common, it’s that they appreciate plain talk. Even...
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Movements in Medicaid: Tennessee Ties Quality to Payments
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Many states work diligently to improve the quality of health care, and we want our programs to help guide their mission. Specifically, states can leverage NCQA’s Health Plan...
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Inside Health Care: Creating a Healthy Population
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Patricia Barrett, VP, Product Design and Support What does it mean to create a healthy population? It means not just treating patients for their specific illnesses but taking...
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Heads Up: HEDIS® Public Comment Open Thru March 13
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Every year, we look to the public to comment on changes to our programs, procedures and processes. Next week, we’ll ask for input on our Healthcare Effectiveness Data and...
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Supporting the Charter on Professionalism for Health Care Organizations
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - At NCQA, we believe measurement is key to attaining quality in health care. But we also know some things can’t be measured, even in health care—for example, professionalism. Some...
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NVLAP Accredits NCQA
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Over the summer, our Chief Information Officer, Rick Moore, posted “Measure Up: Holding Ourselves to a Higher Standard.” In the blog, he detailed our ambitious and innovative plan...
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Depression: A Measure for Mothers
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We want to tell you about some work on depression that is brewing with our HEDIS® team and their funders, the California Health Care and Zoma foundations. The team put together...
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American Heart Month 2018
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - American Heart Month 2018 may be winding down, but that doesn’t mean we stop talking about heart disease and how to fight it. Chances are you know someone affected by heart...
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There’s a New Product in Town: School-Based Medical Home Recognition
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - School-based health centers have a new home in the NCQA Recognition program neighborhood: School-Based Medical Home. What’s It About? School-Based Medical Home School-based health...
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Then and Now: School-Based Medical Homes
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - As a kid, I spent my fair share of time in the school nurse’s office. Unfortunately, being asthmatic and overly prone to sickness wasn’t an ideal combination. Fast-forward 10...
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NCQA Policy Team Responds to Proposed Changes to Medicare Advantage
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - If you missed NCQA’s letter to Seema Verma, CMS Administrator, about proposed changes to Medicare Advantage and other programs for 2019, here’s a quick summary. Summary: NCQA...
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Datapalooza: Spring Prelude to Quality Talks
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - If you’ve paid attention, you know we are already preparing for Quality Talks this fall. Like always, we’ve searched and selected some of the brightest voices in the healthcare...
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NCQA in the News with Health IT
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - NCQA’s recent announcement that our eMeasure testing laboratory won approval by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), received great...
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Guiding the Way to Population Health
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Population health is at the core of most of our work at NCQA. We know coordinating people’s health care is key to enhancing the experience and outcomes of the patient, and...
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