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Blog Post/Podcast Serious Illness Care: Measures Can Add Patient Insight
ncqa.org/blog/serious-illness-care-measures-add-patient-insight/Care for the seriously ill is an emerging field. Programs that offer care in the community to people living with serious illness are proliferating across…
Blog Post/Podcast Kansas Medicaid Managed Care: Raising the Quality Bar – Includes NCQA LTSS Distinction!
ncqa.org/blog/kansas-medicaid-managed-care-includes-ncqa-ltss-distinction/More than 5 million people receive long-term services and supports (LTSS) in Medicaid. Around the world, more and more people need long-term services and supports…
Blog Post/Podcast Incentives: Making the Case for Your PCMH
ncqa.org/blog/incentives-making-case-pcmh/Last fall, I was talking with a practice manager at a small pediatric clinic in the South that just earned NCQA Recognition. This was his…
Blog Post/Podcast Announcing New York State PCMH Program
ncqa.org/blog/new-york-state-pcmh-program/There is a trend afoot that we are happy to see...health care that's moving toward a…
Blog Post/Podcast Virginia Expands Medicaid… Now What?
ncqa.org/blog/virginia-expands-medicaid-now-what/Any time more people get access to health care, we at NCQA think it’s a great thing. That’s why Virginia’s decision to expand Medicaid to…
Blog Post/Podcast NCQA’s LTSS Best Practices Academy - Join the Class of 2019!
ncqa.org/blog/ltss-best-practices-academy/In 2017, 1.8 million individuals received long-term services and supports (LTSS) through Medicaid managed care plans.1 As the number of people needing LTSS continues to rise, many states have moved toward value-based payment arrangements. With the emphasis…
Blog Post/Podcast Raising the Bar: NCQA’s PCMH Program Excels in New Study
ncqa.org/blog/raising-the-bar-ncqas-pcmh-program-excels-in-new-study/We’re proud to share the news from a recent study in the American Journal of Managed Care. It documents that NCQA recognized Patient-Centered Medical Homes…
Blog Post/Podcast The Stark Law: Waivers for Quality
ncqa.org/blog/4925-2/“Value over volume.” NCQA promotes it. We have for a very long time. It’s why you hear us talk so much about common sense health…
Blog Post/Podcast Core Quality Measures Collaborative: A Coalition for Better Care
ncqa.org/blog/core-quality-measures-collaborative/We see yet another move closer to a more value-based health care system that is aligned around a core set of measures—measures that can be…
Blog Post/Podcast NCQA Launches New Population Health Management Programs
ncqa.org/blog/ncqa-launches-new-population-health-management-programs/Our mission has always been to improve the quality of health care for all Americans. Toward this end, we are launching two programs that take…
Blog Post/Podcast Measurement Burden: Here's What We Told the Federal Government
ncqa.org/blog/measurement-burden-heres-what-we-told-onc/We know it’s just getting to be too much for too many who want more time to spend with patients. Most agree quality measurement is a noble…
Blog Post/Podcast What the Rise in "Big Data" Means for Employers
ncqa.org/blog/what-the-rise-in-big-data-means-for-employers/It is a known fact that to improve the quality of health care, you must measure it. We stand on the edge of a vast…