Quality Compass 2010 is an indispensable tool for selecting a health plan, conducting competitor analysis, examining quality improvement and benchmarking plan performance.
Customized ReportsGenerate custom reports in Quality Compass by selecting plans, measures, and benchmarks for up to 3 years of trended data. Results in table and graph format offer easy comparison of plans’ performance against each other and benchmarks or averages.
Data ExporterThis optional feature downloads custom-built reports as well as the complete All-Measure Download (based on years purchased) directly from the online tool into spreadsheets for enhanced analysis and research opportunities. Also, included with the Data Exporter are confidence intervals not found in Standard Editions of Quality Compass.
New for Quality Compass 2010
Introducing Quality Compass: RRU + Quality Index (Commercial)
As health care costs continue to skyrocket, health plans, employers and consumers want to know: Are we getting the most return for our health care dollars?
This year, NCQA introduces Quality Compass: RRU + Quality Index (Commercial), which incorporates Relative Resource Use (RRU) 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.
Quality Compass: RRU + Quality Index (Commercial) is scheduled for release in late October 2010, and
will be included with 2010 Commercial licenses.
Quality Compass 2010 commercial and Medicaid licenses include the following product options: - Standard Edition – current year’s data
- Trended Data – up to 3 years of trended data
- Data Exporter – download custom reports
- Premier Edition – combines Standard Edition, 3 years’ trended data and Data Exporter for a package discount
Quality Compass 2010: RRU + Quality Index (Commercial) products offer current year’s data, with the option of adding the Data Exporter.
File 5
File 5 Commercial and Medicaid Licenses contain detailed Member Satisfaction Data using the HEDIS/CAHPS 4.0H Adult Survey. This blinded member-level data is collected using the HEDIS/CAHPS 4.0H Adult Survey. Organizations contract with NCQA-Certified Survey Vendors to administer surveys using HEDIS survey specifications, and to submit collected data to NCQA for calculation of HEDIS survey results.
NCQA survey programs employ various data validation and cleaning routines to ensure that only valid and appropriate data are used to calculate HEDIS survey results. The data included in File 5 represent cleaned, validated data sets that NCQA used to calculate HEDIS 2010 CAHPS 4.0H survey results.
File 5 will continue to be offered as a SAS® file and is ideal for research and analysis.
Data License
NCQA offers licenses for its health plan performance database, including accreditation results, HEDIS performance measures and member satisfaction results. These data files contain the most comprehensive set of measures of health plan quality available. Offered in various formats, the performance data license is designed for consultants and employers for use in self-built report cards and benefit communication tools.
For more information on licensing Quality Compass data to create customized tools for resale relationships, please visit our
Health Plan Performance Data License page.
Order Quality CompassThere are three ways to order Quality Compass. Customers can order online, mail an order form or call Customer Support.