What is Quality Compass: RRU  Quality Index?

Relative Resource Use (RRU) data is publicly reported via NCQA’s Quality Compass line of information products: Quality Compass: RRU + Quality Index. Quality Compass is an online database of comparable information on clinical performance and patient experience on hundreds of health plan products. It is an indispensable tool for selecting a health plan, conducting competitor analysis, examining quality improvement and benchmarking plan performance.

Available in commercial and Medicaid formats beginning in 2011, Quality Compass: RRU + Quality Index reports measures that capture the total resources used by health plans to treat patients with select chronic conditions and aligns their utilization with their HEDIS quality results. This dataset provides detailed information that allows for the comparison of plans based on both value and quality.

Measures focus on traditionally high-cost conditions:
 

• Asthma
• Cardiovascular conditions
• COPD
• Diabetes
• Hypertension

Populations captured in the resource use measures are risk adjusted for clinical category, presence of comorbidities, age and gender so that plans that serve an older or sicker population are not at a disadvantage when compared to other plans that serve younger and healthier populations.
Ordering Options

Commercial

Quality Compass 2011: RRU + Quality Index (Commercial) is a web-based tool and is provided complimentary with any Quality Compass 2011: Commercial license purchase or can be purchased as a standalone product. RRU + Quality Index (Commercial) contains the most recent year of data only.

Quality Compass: RRU + Quality Index (Commercial) offers the optional Data Exporter, which allows users to download custom-built reports directly from the online tool into spreadsheets for enhanced analysis and research opportunities.

Medicaid

Quality Compass 2011: RRU + Quality Index (Medicaid) is a downloadable file and is provided complimentary with any Quality Compass 2011: Medicaid license purchase or can be can be purchased as a standalone product.  RRU + Quality Index (Medicaid) contains the most recent year of data only.

Order Online:

Quality Compass products can be ordered online below or via an order form. 

To order online, select from a link below to purchase Quality Compass. Packages vary based on the number of licensed users. For ordering assistance, please contact NCQA Customer Support at (888) 275-7585.

Also available for purchase is Quality Compass: Medicaid, CAHPS Booklet, File 5, and Quality Dividend Calculator. For more information on the full suite of Quality Compass products, please visit www.ncqa.org/qualitycompass.aspx.