Healthcare IT News June 5, 2020
More than three-dozen HEDIS measures have been adjusted to reflect new telemedicine services in response COVID-19 and better align with the realities of virtual care delivery.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance has given the OK for what it’s calling a “sweeping set of adjustments” to 40 of the measures used for HEDIS scores, given the new realities of widespread and scaled-up telehealth use.
WHY IT MATTERS
The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set measures, widely used in quality-improvement efforts, have been updated by NCQA as more health plans, clinicians and patients embrace telehealth services in a major way during the coronavirus pandemic.
These new changes will apply to healthcare-quality measurement beginning this year, according to NCQA, and align with recent...
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