Health Payer Intelligence February 15, 2018
NCQA is asking health plans, providers, and other healthcare experts for comments and suggestions about the agency’s updated HEDIS measures.
NCQA is seeking health plan, provider, and related stakeholder public comments to weigh in on updated HEDIS measures and the implementation of new measures related to chronic disease management.
NCQA wants to implement measures related to patient risks for opioid abuse, patients with multiple chronic conditions, long-term support services (LTSS), revisions to performance standards for measuring blood-pressure control, and metrics for hospital readmissions.
“NCQA reviews HEDIS measures to determine whether changes may be needed. NCQA convenes multi-stakeholder advisory groups—including independent scientists, clinicians, consumers and purchasers—to ensure that measures meet and balance the high standards of relevance, scientific soundness and feasibility,”...