Get ready for HEDIS 3: what it is, how to use it. (Health Plan Employer and Information Set)

From: Medical Marketing & Media | Date: September 1, 1996| Author: Kimball-Baker, Kathleen | Copyright information

Marketers are fast learning two new sets of initials:

HEDIS: the Health Plan Employer and Information Set, which is just putting into effect its latest, enhanced version, called HEDIS 3.0, and

NCQA: the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the group that's developing HEDIS.

This two-part article addresses the obvious questions raised by these bare definitions: what are HEDIS and NCQA...and how will they affect healthcare marketers? But first a word of ...

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