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Blog Post/Podcast New Partnership, New Opportunities in Population Health!
ncqa.org/blog/new-partnership/We love it when stars align and new partnerships form. That's what makes us proud to announce that NCQA is now working with the…
Blog Post/Podcast Getting Quality Measurement Right and Bringing Order to Complex Data
ncqa.org/blog/getting-quality-measurement-right/“As we move from fee-for-service to a world of value-based care, accurately…
Blog Post/Podcast Help Us, Help You: Our Strategy to Reduce Burden in MACRA
ncqa.org/blog/help-us-help-you-aci-autocredit/NCQA works hard to address clinicians’ concerns about the burden of quality reporting across multiple payers. And we could use your help. Today, Medicaid and…
Blog Post/Podcast Senate Health Care Proposal: A Public Policy Update
ncqa.org/blog/senate-health-care-proposal-a-public-policy-update/As you likely already know, the Senate Republicans have just released their health care proposal –the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA). A vote…
Blog Post/Podcast Measure Up: Hold Ourselves to a Higher Standard
ncqa.org/blog/measure-hold-higher-standard/More than a year ago, I wrote a blog “Trust is Critical When Change is Needed.” To summarize, I concluded that for the push toward…
Blog Post/Podcast NCQA Endorses the “Patient Choice and Quality Care Act”
ncqa.org/blog/ncqa-endorses-the-patient-choice-and-quality-care-act/We’re enthusiastic about new legislation—the Patient Choice and Quality Care Act of 2017—introduced by Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Representative Phil Roe…
Blog Post/Podcast Sharing the Patient-Centered Playbook: A Program for Specialty Practices
ncqa.org/blog/sharing-the-patient-centered-playbook-a-program-for-specialty-practices/Primary care is the foundation of patient care, but it is a just one part of a complex medical system. Specialty practices act as medical…
Blog Post/Podcast Helping Those Who Help Others - A Roadmap to Success
ncqa.org/blog/a-roadmap-to-success/NCQA has a long history of developing products and programs to meet identified needs in health care…
Blog Post/Podcast Oncology Medical Home Pilot Sites Earn NCQA Recognition
ncqa.org/blog/oncology-medical-home-pilot-sites-earn-ncqa-recognition/Seven sites became the first in the country to earn NCQA Oncology Medical Home Recognition. These sites demonstrated excellence in patient-centered oncology care and provided…
Blog Post/Podcast Keeping PACE With All Patients
ncqa.org/blog/keeping-pace-with-all-patients/PACE—Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly—is a Medicare/Medicaid program that helps people who need nursing home-level care meet their needs in the community, instead…
Blog Post/Podcast Patient Engagement Strategy: Shared Decision Making
ncqa.org/blog/patient-engagement-strategy-shared-decision-making/Since 1982 when the President’s Commission first recognized shared decision making (SDM) as a concept, it’s had a healthy evolution—from the creation of the first United…
Blog Post/Podcast What Role Does LTSS Play in Integrated Care?
ncqa.org/blog/what-role-does-ltss-play-in-integrated-care/“For Sale: Volumes 4, 5 and 6 of Encyclopedia Britannica. Everything you need to know, from D to K (Da Vinci through Kung Fu).” There’s…