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Cervical Cancer: Early Detection Is Key

NCQA

But the screening rate was 55% for Medicaid plans, highlighting the need for more screening education and support. The good news is that unnecessary screenings reached an all-time low in 2023: 0.42% for commercial plans and 0.40% for Medicaid plans. Learn more by visiting the National Cancer Institutes website.

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AI-Powered Pop Health and SDOH – The Good, The Bad and The Best Practices

HIT Consultant

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool for making population health analytics more accurate and interventions more effective. Code is written by humans who have unconscious biases, and those biases can creep into the algorithms of AI when Quality Assurance functions are not properly sensitized to detect them.

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State Community Health Worker Models

NASHP

The information on this map comes from a 50-state survey of a variety of stakeholders, ranging from Medicaid officials to Community Health Workers, on their states’ approaches?to?integrating?CHWs MHP Medicaid Health Plans. NCQA National Committee for Quality Assurance. NIH National Institutes of Health.

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Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

NASHP

Primary care case management (PCCM) programs are one of the oldest types of Medicaid managed care, but over time most states have shifted to use managed care organizations (MCOs) to deliver services to Medicaid participants. million Medicaid participants. million Medicaid enrollees.

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NCQA Launches Race and Ethnicity Stratification Learning Network

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) today launched the Race and Ethnicity Stratification Learning Network, a free, interactive, online tool that offers data and best practices to help health plans improve how they collect race and ethnicity data on their enrollees.

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Racial Bias in Algorithms: How One State is Leading the Charge

NASHP

As states continue developing their health equity strategies, an emerging consideration is how commercial algorithms that are used by states’ Medicaid managed care organizations to inform clinical care decisions may exhibit significant racial bias.

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Higher satisfaction with care and treatment outcomes seen with shared decision making

Health Dialog

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NQCA) includes certified or evidence-based decision aids as an element of provider support in the most recent population health management accreditation standards.