Updates to The State of Health Care Quality Report

July 10, 2025 · Becky Kolinski

NCQA has made updates to The State of Health Care Quality Report, a free online resource:

• National benchmark data for MY 2023 are now available. MY 2024 data will be added in February 2026, but can be accessed sooner through NCQA’s Quality Compass^®.
• We added newly released measures for MY 2025, including definitions and background on each measure. (National averages for new measures are not yet available.)
• We moved measure definitions and national averages for retired HEDIS measures to a new section.

How to Access The State of Health Care Quality Report

The report is available through this link. You can also find a link to the report on the HEDIS Measures and Technical Resources web page.

• We recommend that you bookmark the page for easy access.
• You’ll need to enter your contact information on a measure page to access national averages for all measures. (You only need to do this once, but if you clear your browsing data, you might need to enter your information again.)
• The information in the report is for internal use only and may not be redistributed or used for commercial purposes.

Watch this video to learn how to access the report.

Better Benchmarking With Quality Compass

NCQA’s Quality Compass provides access to health plan performance and to HEDIS and CAHPS^® benchmarks to identify areas for improvement. It includes national, state and regional benchmarks, and plan-level results for competitor analysis.

Release dates for Quality Compass 2025 (MY 2024) vary by product line: Commercial on July 31; Medicaid on August 29; Medicare on October 31; Exchange on November 21.

Learn More

• Read our blog Improving HEDIS Performance Through Benchmarking.
• Visit the State of Health Care Quality web page.
• Visit the Quality Compass web page.

Fun Fact: NCQA released the first Managed Care Quality Report in 1997. A year later, we renamed it The State of Health Care Quality Report to change its focus from cost to quality and value. Dozens of reporters picked up the story: the AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, broadcast news, radio. The shift in health care had begun.

HEDIS^® is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

CAHPS^® is a registered trademark of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Quality Compass^® is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).