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NCQA Lists Accomplishments

Jan 24, 2025

Per the notice below, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has listed its 2024 accomplishments.

 
2024 was a big year for NCQA and health care quality.  Let's look back at some major milestones from 2024 and the work we’ve done to advance our mission.  We look forward to partnering with you in 2025 by providing insights, best practices and resources to help you on your quality improvement journey.
Top Resources
Health Equity Series

Empowers NCQA Accreditation customers to build infrastructure to sustain health equity initiatives beyond Accreditation.
 
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Navigating Cross-Sector Partnerships
Reference Guide

 
Cross-sector partnerships are a key strategy to address health-related social needs.  Partnerships leverage the expertise and resources of each organization, and can bolster efforts to improve community health and well-being.

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Pew Charitable Trusts  Antibiotic Utilization for Respiratory
Conditions Report


Understanding variations in performance in the HEDIS suite of antibiotic measures is an opportunity to identify areas for improvement.

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Digital Quality Hub 
 
We launched the Digital Quality Hub to provide the latest news, information and resources to support health care organizations in their transition to digital quality.

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Most Read Articles
NCQA’s Proposed Timeline for Retiring and Replacing HEDIS Hybrid Measures

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Updates to Breast Cancer Screening Age Range for HEDIS MY 2025

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What New OMB Rules on Race and Ethnicity Mean for You

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NCQA Shares New Guidance for Digital
HEDIS Reporting
& Ethnicity Data


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What CMS’s New Interoperability Rules Mean for Quality

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Top Podcasts
The Move to Digital Quality Measurement
 
Rebecca takes an in-depth look at the sociotechnical shifts required for this evolution, and shares practical strategies to help organizations navigate this complex process.

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The New Rules of Data Sharing
 
Amol describes TEFCA as a voluntary national network—like the postal service—facilitating the free flow of HEDIS data.  Eric highlights its bipartisan roots in the 2016 Cures Act, showcasing TEFCA as a public-private partnership and a model for standards-based improvement.

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The Future of HEDIS®: Better Data, Better Measures,
Better Care

 
University of Chicago professor Dr. Marshall Chin shares a comprehensive, multifaceted strategy to improve health equity. 

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Announcements
Health Quality at NCQA
 
NCQA and Whitman-Walker jointly developed an issue brief, Empowering Health Care Organizations to Improve Care for LGBTQ+ Populations, which discusses HIPAA protections for responsible SOGI data stewardship, why understanding these regulations is important and how organizations can better serve the LGBTQ+ community. 
 
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Focus on Credentialing
 
NCQA updated its Credentialing Product Suite to help ensure that organizations can maintain a high-quality network for members and clients, while providing a framework for adopting industry best practices to promote accurate and efficient verification of practitioner credentials.
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Product Launches and Updates
New and Improved Quality Compass 

This data portal gives you exclusive access to health plan performance and benchmarks to identify areas for quality improvement.
 
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Virtual Care Accreditation 

This program is for organizations that offer virtual primary care and virtual urgent care, and for those that oversee virtual care networks.
 
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NCQA Events
Health Quality Forum
 April 7–8
 
The NCQA Health Quality Forum explores how states and their partners are improving care for vulnerable and underserved communities, with a focus on health disparities in communities facing the greatest barriers to quality care.
 
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Health Innovation Summit
October 13–15

The summit is a four-day, in-person event with sessions focused on health equity, digital measurement and more.  Join us in San Francisco, CA, in October!
 
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Top Education Courses
Race, Ethnicity, SOGI, Income and Language in Patient Registration

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SOGI Data LGBTQ+ Health Care: Quality

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PCMH Recognition Annual Reporting 2025: Continued Success

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Harnessing the Power of Diagnostic Data to Support CM, QI

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Introduction to HEDIS®

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Using Goal Attainment Scaling

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