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What We Learned from Our Virtual Care Accreditation Pilot

NCQA

Benefits of Virtual Care Accreditation Virtual health care is now a core function of the care delivery system. The Virtual Care Accreditation pilot program helped NCQA understand the needs of virtual care organizations and how Accreditation can help improve the quality of care they deliver.

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NCQA Launches Virtual Care Accreditation Program

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has introduced a groundbreaking new program designed to evaluate and accredit organizations offering virtual care services. Facilitated Contracting: Accreditation may help organizations align with value-based care contracts.

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Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid

NASHP

States may consider creating standards and programmatic requirements to ensure that palliative care services conform to state Medicaid expectations. licensed hospice providers), with quality assurance provisions and any licensing updates necessary to ensure team competencies for non-hospice care.

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NCQA’s Health Plan Ratings Help Consumers Choose a Health Plan

NCQA

Ratings are based on three types of quality measures: Measures of clinical quality from HEDIS and the Health Outcomes Survey (HOS). Measures of patient experience using the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS ® ). NCQA considers plans with 4.5 Learn more about that change here.

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HEDIS® Public Comment Period Is Now Open

NCQA

About HEDIS and Public Comment HEDIS measures of clinical quality and patient experience are based on scientific evidence. HEDIS is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). Cross-cutting item for HEDIS to align with federal standards for race and ethnicity.

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Reimagining our Approach to the Mental Health Crisis with Dr. Helen Egger | E. 85

Vie Healthcare

And I mentioned about the child and family mental health checkup, but we have a whole measurement and assessment approach that is interwoven into what we call the Little Otter way, our clinical care. And this impacts not only communication with families but are rigorously looking at quality assurance and outcomes.

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NCQA Joins White House Listening Session on the Opioid Crisis  

NCQA

This gathering of experts at the White House pinpointed gaps in our current approach and enabled exchange of ideas on measurement approaches that prioritize the patient experience and can drive evidence-based treatment of OUD. There are too many process-oriented measureswe need more outcome measures and patient experience measures.