Unlock the Power of Accreditation Across Your Network

Educate, align, and elevate your teams and delegates

Delegation has become more popular as health plans realize the value of leveraging accredited delegates to perform complex functions such as utilization management, credentialing, population health and complex case management. Finding the right delegation partner is a critical component of success. Partnering with NCQA-Accredited or Certified delegates provides foundational assurances that the potential delegate has the capability to perform the designated function(s) to NCQA specifications and most importantly your health plan will have the assurance that the delegate is held to the same level of rigor and accountability on key functions.

Working with accredited delegates can transform health plan operations by:

  • Offloading specialized tasks to expert, accredited partners.
  • Lowering costs while maintaining or improving service quality.
  • Accelerating processes like credentialing and utilization management.
  • Ensuring regulatory compliance through structured oversight.
  • Enhancing provider and member satisfaction with faster, more reliable service.

This alignment of efficiency, quality, compliance, and trust enables health plans to deliver superior care while keeping control, costs and accountability at scale.

Connect With NCQA About Accredited Delegation

Educate your team and delegates with key resources:

Free Toolkit

Smarter Delegation Starts Here

Strategic delegation lets health plans focus on what matters most. By partnering with expert, NCQA-Accredited organizations, you can offload specialized tasks, lower costs, and accelerate critical processes like credentialing and utilization management—all while maintaining quality and regulatory compliance. The result: faster, more reliable service that boosts both provider and member satisfaction. Download our complimentary Delegation Toolkit to learn what to look for in a delegation partner and how to make the most of every partnership.

Conference Resources

NCQA @ AHIP 2026

Smarter delegation starts here. See how NCQA-Accredited partners help health plans offload credentialing, utilization management, and more—cutting costs while keeping quality and compliance locked in.

Explore the programs powering high-performing networks, plus what’s next in digital quality.

Explore our live and on-demand education options:

NCQA Delegation Effectiveness Series

Delegate smarter. This expert-led series helps health plans and their partners build value-driven delegation arrangements that cut costs, expand capacity, and improve outcomes.

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NCQA Delegation 301: Advanced Oversight for Credentialing

Master delegated credentialing oversight – audit-ready, accountable, and aligned, straight from an NCQA Surveyor.

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