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HEDIS® Public Comment Closes Thursday
ncqa.org/blog/hedis-public-comment-opens-next-week/Public comment is your opportunity to weigh in on the relevance, scientific soundness and feasibility of new and revised measures for HEDIS®. Feedback NCQA receives…
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Presidential Pitch: Robust, Rapid and Relevant Patient Experience Measurement
ncqa.org/blog/presidential-pitch-robust-rapid-and-relevant-measurement/It’s our life’s work at NCQA. We measure performance to inform health care quality improvement. Measuring patient experience is an essential component. The government long…
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Lessons Learned: Real-World Recommendations for Building a Community Resource Referral Platform
ncqa.org/blog/recommendations-for-community-resource-referral-platform/This post is a direct result of NCQA’s promise to research and recommend resolutions for addressing inequity and the social determinants of health (SDOH). We’re…
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CMS Quality Conference: New Digital Deadline, Aligned Priorities
ncqa.org/blog/cms-quality-conference-new-digital-deadline-aligned-priorities/We can’t let a full week close before we congratulate CMS on its successful annual Quality Conference. We’re enthusiastic supporters of much of what we…
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Meet the Quality Talks Speaker: PCORI’s Nakela Cook, MD
ncqa.org/blog/meet-the-quality-talks-speaker-pcoris-nakela-cook/NCQA visited (remotely) with Nakela L. Cook, MD, MPH, last week. She is one of ten informative and inspiring speakers in the 2021 Quality Talks…
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New Home and Community-Based Services Funds, NCQA Opportunities
ncqa.org/blog/hcbs-opportunity/The American Rescue Plan Act could be the answer for organizations seeking to create or strengthen Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) programs. The pandemic-fueled rescue plan increases federal matching rates (FMAP) for Medicaid HCBS spending by…
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Presentation Recap: Quantifying COVID’s Disruption on SNF Care
ncqa.org/blog/poster-recap-quantifying-covids-disruption-on-snf-care/People who care about quality and how to pay for it are interested in what happened at Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) during the pandemic’s early…
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Presentation Recap: NCQA Finds Trends in Timely Follow-Up After Hospitalization
ncqa.org/blog/poster-recap-ncqa-finds-trends-in-timely-follow-up-after-hospitalization/COVID-19 presented many challenges for medical professionals when providing care to patients – including discharge timely follow-up visits after hospitalizations but with telehealth, some of…
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NCQA Responds to CMS Plans for All-Digital Quality Future
ncqa.org/blog/ncqa-responds-to-cms-plans-for-all-digital-quality-future/The world learned a million lessons during the COVID-19 pandemic, but one of the most obvious was that our public health data infrastructure is severely…
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Digital Quality Summit: FHIR for Dummies (or the Forgetful)
ncqa.org/blog/digital-quality-summit-fhir-for-dummies-or-the-forgetful/Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR) comes up a lot in discussions of digital quality measurement. But how many people who work in quality can say…
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Person-Centered Outcomes: Opportunities for Your Quality Measurement
ncqa.org/blog/person-centered-outcomes-opportunities-for-your-quality-measurement/There is consensus. Using measures to ascertain the quality of delivered health care is a good thing. However, there are concerns too. Are there too…
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HEDIS 2022: See What's New, What's Changed and What's Retired
ncqa.org/blog/hedis-2022-see-whats-new-whats-changed-and-whats-retired/Every year, NCQA updates and releases the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®). This process ensures that HEDIS measures remain relevant and feasible for implementation.…