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Aging Together: Why Age-Friendly Care Is Everyone’s Future
September 24, 2026 |43:37
Rani Snyder
President, The John A. Hartford Foundation
Eric Cahow
Vice President, Government Markets Performance, Independence Blue Cross
Dave White
Patient Advocate and Kidney Transplant Recipient
America is aging rapidly. Learn how age-friendly care is helping healthcare organizations focus on what matters most to older adults while improving outcomes, reducing harm and creating a better experience for patients and caregivers.
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Beyond the App: What Meaningful Digital Engagement Really Looks Like
June 11, 2026 |47:05
Peter Robertson
Senior Director, Practice Transformation, California Quality Collaborative
Kevin Masci
Senior Director of Clinical Affairs, Omada Health
Brandee Hicks
Patient Representative & Public Health Researcher
Digital health programs are everywhere, but how do we know whether patients are truly engaged and benefiting from them?
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Passing the Quality Torch
December 17, 2025 |22:06
Vivek Garg, MD, MBA
President and CEO, NCQA
In this year-end episode of Quality Talks, Peggy O’Kane, NCQA’s founding President, sits down with Dr. Vivek Garg, incoming President and CEO.
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Wonderful and Broken: Fixing Primary Care in America
October 30, 2025 |29:43
Troyen Brennan, MD
Dr. Troyen Brennan discusses ideas from his new book, Wonderful and Broken, about what links primary care to medicine's value-based future.
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The Enthusiasm to Engineer a New Kind of Care
September 24, 2025 |29:44
Anna Taylor
Associate Vice President, MultiCare Connected Care
Anna Taylor brings energy and an engineering mindset to health care’s digital transformation.
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The Next Five Years in Health Care: Optimism and Opportunity
September 2, 2025 |32:02
J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Health Policy and Management, Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Dr. Marc Overhage—a longtime leader in health care technology and policy—dissects persistent design flaws in health care and outlines a pragmatic, positive vision for building better quality into care delivery.
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Primary Care, Medicare and a New Vision of Accountability
August 6, 2025 |35:37
Farzad Mostashari, MD
Chief Executive Officer, Aledade
Dr. Farzad Mostashari, CEO of Aledade, Inc., joins NCQA’s Peggy O’Kane to unpack why US health care struggles to improve and how we can fix it. From Medicare reform to AI in care delivery, Farzad shares bold ideas and his “Core 4” framework for better primary care and accountability. Insightful, candid and surprisingly fun.
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Better Care Depends on Aligning Incentives
July 23, 2025 |24:06
Susan Dentzer
President and Chief Executive Officer, America's Physician Groups
Susan Dentzer presents a compelling vision of accountability, highlighting how savvy health systems are leveraging new payment models and building on strengths of Medicare Advantage to achieve better patient outcomes at lower costs.
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Why ‘Systemness’ is the Key to Better Quality
June 30, 2025 |30:50
William Shrank, MD, MSHS
Venture Partner, Andreesen Horowitz
Dr. Will Shrank makes the case for “systemness”— cohesive, integrated care that
runs on aligned incentives, measuring meaningful outcomes and thoughtful implementation of value-based care.
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The Next Four Years of Quality: What Trump’s Team Should Do Now
May 1, 2025 |19:58
Eric Musser, MPH
Vice President, Federal Affairs, NCQA
One-hundred days into the second Trump administration, priorities and possibilities for health policy are coming into focus.
What does it all mean for quality?
The episode of Quality Matters features the first of several discussions about recommendations to the Trump administration to shape quality's future.
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What does it all mean for quality?
The episode of Quality Matters features the first of several discussions about recommendations to the Trump administration to shape quality's future.
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What Have We Learned About Health Care Economics?
April 16, 2025 |19:52
Sanjula Jain
Senior Vice President of Market Strategy and Chief Research Officer, Trilliant Health
Brittany Cunningham, DNP, MSN, RN, CSSBB
Vice President, Episodes of Care and Population Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Tiffany Inglis, MD
National Medical Director for Women and Children’s Health, Carelon Health
Economic news dominates the headlines these days.
But what do we really know about the economics of health care?
We review what we've learned about health care economics from recent guests.
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Bundles 101: An Education in Value-Based Care
February 6, 2025 |16:13
Brittany Cunningham, DNP, MSN, RN, CSSBB
Vice President, Episodes of Care and Population Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Value-based care is a big idea that many people associate with Medicare or Medicaid.
But what about value-based care in commercial insurance?
In Tennessee, care bundles deliver value-based solutions to employers and their workers.
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Unlocking Value in US Health Care
January 9, 2025 |19:36
Sanjula Jain
Senior Vice President of Market Strategy and Chief Research Officer, Trilliant Health
Many people think of “value” as a simple equation: quality divided by costs.
But not every policy scheme with “value” in its name delivers what the label implies.
A health economist helps us update our value vocabulary to understand what’s really happening in the health economy.
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Women in Quality
October 16, 2024 |15:22
Vanessa Guzman, MS, ME (Panel Moderator)
CEO, SmartRise Health & Ella Es Health
Khanh Nguyen, PharmD
CEO, Cozeva
Lynn Todman, PhD
Vice President of Health Equity and Community Partnerships, Corewell Health
Many women work in health care quality.
What does it take to lead and thrive at the field's highest levels?
This episode of Quality Matters previews a panel discussion that answers those questions.
We hear from panelists and the moderator of the Women in Quality event at NCQA’s Health Innovation Summit 2024.
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A Win for Value-Based Care in OB-GYN
October 3, 2024 |15:47
Tiffany Inglis, MD
National Medical Director for Women and Children’s Health, Carelon Health
Value-based care is common in primary care but remains rare in specialties such as obstetrics. A program that has won a NCQA Health Innovation Award might change that: the Elevance Health Obstetrics Practice Consultants program. We learn about the program from its director, Dr. Tiffany Inglis.
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