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Managed Care
April 2002 |
NCQA To Judge Plans on Drug Monitoring Health plans could soon be required to develop systems to prevent drug interactions, as well as systems to monitor drug recalls and FDA alerts, under proposed accreditation standards issued recently by the National Committee for Quality Assurance...   |
Managed Care
July 2004
Tony Berberabe |
NCQA's New Online Survey Tries To Tame the Paper Tiger This tool includes a document library where health plan applicants store the forms needed to show that they are worthy of accreditation. |
Managed Care
July 2003
MargaretAnn Cross |
Money Pit: Is Accreditation Always Worth the Cost? Some plans swear by the benefits of obtaining an "excellent." Others say that customers care much more about cost. |
Managed Care
November 1999 |
NCQA-AMA Plan Would Reduce Paper Duplication ...NCQA will allow health plans to use data from AMA's American Medical Accreditation Program to satisfy NCQA's credentialing standards.... |
Managed Care
September 2007 |
NCQA Standards Focus on PPO Performance Preferred provider organizations that are seeking National Committee for Quality Assurance accreditation will now be required to report clinical quality results through HEDIS. |
Managed Care
October 2000 |
HEDIS Performance: Routine reporting drives improvement Results published in NCQA's State of Managed Care Quality 2000 put a stake in the ground in terms of how well health plans care for members with costly chronic conditions -- and established how much room exists for improvement. |
Managed Care
October 2004 |
Quality at Accredited Health Plans Takes Big Step Forward The quality of care delivered by health plans that report performance data to the National Committee for Quality Assurance improved markedly in 2003. |
Managed Care
September 1999 |
Physicians Seen As Next in Line For NCQA Review The National Committee for Quality Assurance says it will begin an accreditation program for medical groups two years from now.... |
Managed Care
August 2004
Bob Carlson |
Preparing for NCQA: What Not To Do Deciding to seek NCQA accreditation sets an HMO up for lots of preparatory work. Make sure the effort is well spent. |
Managed Care
November 1999 |
Another Group Hopes To Measure Quality of Care There's a new player in quality measurement: the National Forum for Healthcare Quality Measurement and Reporting.... |
Managed Care
March 2000 |
NCQA Unveils New PPO Accreditation Program, HEDIS '01 |
Managed Care
April 2000 |
NCQA To Put Report Cards On the Web The National Committee for Quality Assurance hopes to elevate the degree to which quality of care factors into people's choice of health plans. NCQA is placing health plan report cards on its web site... |
Managed Care
November 2005 |
NCQA Wonders: Who Keeps Tab On Consumer Plans? National Committee for Quality Assurance is worried about the increase of consumer-directed health plans which tend not to measure or report on their performance. |
Managed Care
September 1999 |
Headlines on Deadline... Healthcare industry news briefs. |
Managed Care
August 2005
John Carroll |
California Doctors Fear That NCQA Would Be Too Lenient With Plans Should the National Committee for Quality Assurance take over part of the job of overseeing health plans? It seems to be working in some states. |
Managed Care
May 2001
John Carroll |
Two Accrediting Organizations Prepare To Issue DM Standards It's probable that one will become the dominant judge: NCQA or URAC. After it happens, will vendors undergo less scrutiny by individual plans? |
Managed Care
March 2002 |
NCQA To Help CMS Monitor Quality of M+C Plans The National Committee for Quality Assurance has been tapped to help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly HCFA) monitor plans that participate in Medicare+Choice... |
Insurance & Technology
April 2, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Jopp Moves to URAC While at the Health Insurance Association of America, CIO Devin Jopp saw his position shift from an information capacity to a more operational capacity, as exemplified by his secondary role as COO of the HIAA's business programs. |
Managed Care
December 2002
Margaret E. O'Kane |
Taking the Lead for Accountability Critics complain that some HMOs withhold data, but NCQA President Margaret O'Kane responds that HMOs are exemplary in measuring and reporting quality. |
Managed Care
July 2000 |
NCQA To Accredit DM Programs, HEDIS Software The National Committee for Quality Assurance will soon offer its blessing to disease management programs. NCQA is developing a DM certification program intended to recognize regimens that effectively manage chronic illnesses. The program will go live next year. |
Managed Care
November 2004
MargaretAnn Cross |
Accrediting Agencies Turn Attention To Consumer-Directed Health Plans If employers make decisions based on United Regional Health Care Foundation's and National Committee for Quality Assurance's rating of traditional managed care plans, shouldn't they want similar ratings of consumer-directed health plans? |
Managed Care
December 2004 |
Tracking the Coverage Divide Low-wage workers face more than just one obstacle in trying to obtain health care coverage, according to a Commonwealth Fund report. |
Managed Care
December 2003
Margaret E. O'Kane |
NCQA To Look More Closely At Issues Small Employers Care About Why don't small employers consider health care quality information the same way large employers do when making benefits decisions? We asked the president of NCQA. |
Managed Care
April 2001 |
Purchasers Still Not Focused On Quality, Says Business Group It's a common lament that all but the biggest companies buy health benefits primarily on the basis of price, not quality. New findings by the Washington Business Group on Health back up that assertion... |
Information Today
February 24, 2015 |
ALA Council Accepts 2015 Master's Program Standards for Accreditation The Council of the American Library Association approved the adoption of the 2015 Standards for Accreditation of Master's Programs in Library and Information Studies. |
Managed Care
January 2005 |
NCQA Hopes 10-Best Lists Spur Consumer Interest Medicaid Top 10: BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York... HealthPlus of Michigan... UPMC Health Plan... Medicare Top 10: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts... Capital Health Plan... HealthPartners... etc. |
Managed Care
March 2008 |
Proposed 2009 HEDIS Measures Address Immunization, Obesity Rates The National Committee for Quality Assurance wants to expand what the committee's Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures look at in 2009. |
Managed Care
March 2007 |
NCQA Toughens Evaluation of PPOs Preferred provider organizations will be evaluated on the same set of standards, clinical measures, and patient experience ratings that the NCQA uses to evaluate HMOs and POS plans. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
June 1, 2011 |
To Screen or Not to Screen? What do our genetics tell us about our predisposition to certain diseases? What does this mean for pharmaceutical companies? |
Nursing Management
April 2012
Gloria Kersey-Matusiak |
Culturally competent care: Are we there yet? What exactly is culturally competent care, and how can you use it to lessen healthcare disparities among your patients? |
Managed Care
November 2007 |
Substantial Increase Seen in PPO Quality Reporting Interest in PPO quality reporting has expanded to the public sector as well, according to the report. The Medicare program and the federal Office of Personnel Management now require PPO plans to engage in HEDIS reporting. |
