Comment Letters
Our Public Policy team regularly submits comment letters to federal and state entities on a broad range of health care topics. Read our most recent comment letters below.
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NCQA Urges HHS to Fund Primary Care
NCQA urges HHS Secretary Azar to provide immediate, targeted COVID-19 Provider Relief Funds to primary care practice.
NCQA Comments on CMS Maternal and Infant Health Care in Rural Communities RFI
NCQA identifies important quality measures and other steps to improve the quality of rural maternal and infant health care.
NCQA Comments on CMS Interim Final COVID Rule
NCQA strongly supports regulatory changes to expand telehealth and believes many should remain after this crisis ends. It also is critical to maintain the quality reporting and feedback infrastructure and assess the pandemics impact on quality.
NCQA Supports CDC’s Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age Initiative
NCQA support's the CDC's Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age initiative to speed the advance of new clinical evidence to its implementation in practice.
NCQA Comments on ONC Health IT Strategic Plan
NCQA supports this plan that will foster the interoperability and data governance needed for moving to digital quality measures (dQM).
NCQA Comments on OIG’s Proposed Anti-Kickback Rule Changes
NCQA supports proposed changes to anti-kick rules for value-based payment arrangements.
NCQA Comments on Proposed Stark Rule Changes
NCQA Supports changes to the Stark rule on physician self-referral for value-based payment arrangements.
NCQA Comments on National Vaccine Plan
NCQA urges data standardization and validation and encouraging increased immunization information systems reporting
NCQA Comments on CMS Opioid Action Plan
NCQA urges support for non-opioid pain management, evidence-based treatment and expanded access to care.
NCQA Comments on External Quality Review Protocols of Managed Care Organizations
NCQA supports the addition of non-duplication language for mandatory EQR-related activities to reduce burden on managed care plans and states.
NCQA Comments on Proposed 2020 MACRA Rule
NCQA supports the move to smaller sets of specialty-specific, outcome-based and population health measures in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
NCQA Comments on ACA Non-discrimination Proposal
NCQA opposed proposal to curtail protections for LGBT patients.