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Blog Post/PodcastHEDIS® Public Comment Closes Thursday

Published 02.03.2021
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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…

Blog Post/PodcastPresidential Pitch: Robust, Rapid and Relevant Patient Experience Measurement

Published 02.12.2021
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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…

Blog Post/PodcastLessons Learned: Real-World Recommendations for Building a Community Resource Referral Platform

Published 03.03.2021
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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…

Blog Post/PodcastCMS Quality Conference: New Digital Deadline, Aligned Priorities

Published 03.10.2021
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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…

Blog Post/PodcastMeet the Quality Talks Speaker: PCORI’s Nakela Cook, MD

Published 04.02.2021
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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…

Blog Post/PodcastNew Home and Community-Based Services Funds, NCQA Opportunities

Published 05.18.2021
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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…

Blog Post/PodcastPresentation Recap: OUD: Are We Getting the Care to Those Who Need It?

Published 06.17.2021
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Good News: Lots of attention being paid to making evidence-based care available for opioid use disorder. However, we know very little about whether all the…

Blog Post/PodcastPresentation Recap: Quantifying COVID’s Disruption on SNF Care

Published 06.17.2021
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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…

Blog Post/PodcastPresentation Recap: NCQA Finds Trends in Timely Follow-Up After Hospitalization

Published 06.17.2021
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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…

Blog Post/PodcastNCQA Responds to CMS Plans for All-Digital Quality Future

Published 07.06.2021
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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…

Blog Post/PodcastDigital Quality Summit: FHIR for Dummies (or the Forgetful)

Published 07.15.2021
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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…

Blog Post/PodcastKickoff: NCQA President Opens Digital Quality Summit

Published 07.15.2021
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The Digital Quality Summit is underway. The three-day event kicked off with an exciting opening session including opening remarks from NCQA’s president and founder, Peggy…