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Improving Outcomes for People with Asthma: Challenges & A Call to Action
The Improving Outcomes for People with Asthma: Challenges & A Call to Action white paper highlights expert perspectives on the barriers and challenges to delivering optimal asthma care and the levers and opportunities that hold potential for improving the care and experience of people with asthma. Asthma is a complex, chronic disease that affects nearly 24 million people in the United States today. Despite decades of advances in respiratory care, including evidence-based medications and care delivery models that can help make the condition manageable, there is a critical gap between best practices for asthma care and patients’ reality.
View NowDefining the Behavioral Health Workforce
Equitable access to high-quality behavioral health care remains a challenge in the United States, despite efforts to improve coverage parity and network adequacy. A 2023 white paper by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) highlighted issues with the inconsistently defined behavioral health workforce, which includes diverse provider types with varying scopes of practice. These […]
View NowThe Person-Centered Outcomes Approach Toolkit 
There is broad agreement that individuals’ priorities and health goals should guide their care, especially among adults with complex needs who face trade-offs in determining the right course of treatment. The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) joined forces with individuals and families, research experts, and care organizations, with support from The John A. Hartford […]
View NowImproving Performance on Adherence to Follow-Up Colonoscopy
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) convened a 12-month (2022–2023) Learning Collaborative with health plans, with the aim of improving rates of follow-up colonoscopy after a positive result from a non-colonoscopy screening test. This white paper summarizes findings from the Learning Collaborative. This paper is written for health plans, provider groups and organizations interested […]
View NowImproving Accountability for Behavioral Health Care Access
Network adequacy standards mandate that health plans maintain a sufficient number of providers and facilities to ensure that individuals have reasonable access to necessary health care services, including mental health and substance use disorder services. However, there are widening gaps between access to behavioral health care and access to medical care, and there are higher […]
View NowDigital Technology-Enabled Care Models for Diabetes
Read more to learn how the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the American Diabetes Association partnered to release a white paper to help develop a framework for creating quality standards and measures for diabetes digital technologies. The paper shares the results of the roundtable findings and is a step toward improving the quality of […]
View NowBehavioral Health Care Integration
The demand for high-quality behavioral health services has never been greater. Integrating behavioral health care into primary care settings is one way to increase access; federal policies have encouraged this integration in recent years. However, compared to measures for other conditions, behavioral health quality measures have been difficult to implement and are frequently underreported. This […]
View NowImproving Adult Vaccination Rates
Vaccinations are one of the most effective ways to prevent disease. Despite evidence that routine vaccines for adults improve patient outcomes and decrease health care costs by averting serious disease and hospitalization, many adults do not receive the recommended vaccinations. As the nation emerges from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency, there is […]
View NowAdvancing Best Practices for Goal Attainment Scaling
There is broad agreement that a patient’s priorities and goals should guide their health care. Goal-aligned care enables the clinician to learn more about the outcomes valued by the patient, their preferences, with respect to their condition, and possible treatments and trade-offs. Goal setting has become a key component for management of adults with complex […]
View NowImproving Osteoporosis Care
Osteoporosis is a metabolic bone disease that is most common in postmenopausal women but can occur in women of any age, and in men. Although individuals may not know they have osteoporosis until they break a bone, recognition of the risk factors for osteoporosis—including sex, race, age, family history, other medical conditions and use of […]
View NowThe Future of Telehealth Roundtable
The advent of COVID-19 forced health professionals to think innovatively to facilitate timely care while maintaining compliance with shelter-in-place ordinances. Health systems scrambled to implement and scale virtual modalities of care delivery, including telehealth, and experienced both successes and unique challenges. Regulatory and legislative actions increased access to telehealth through expanded provider eligibility, payment parity, […]
View NowA Rallying Cry: Improving Coordinated Care for People With Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis
Up to 25% of Americans have a chronic disease that has serious implications for them and for clinicians, public health authorities and payers. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) increases the risk of advanced liver disease and is a leading cause of liver transplants in the United States. As many as 6.5% of Americans—including 30%–40% of […]
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