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Accreditation '99 clarifies rankings
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New accreditation standards include annual reports of HEDIS data and a focus on making results more understandable to consumers
If your health plan is going through NCQA accreditation after July 1 next year, you'll be required to submit HEDIS data-audited HEDIS data at that-as part of the review. NCQA is letting July 1, 1999 to June 30, 2000 be a phase-in period for including HEDIS data as part of accreditation, and will only count the data if it helps a plan's overall ranking.
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NCQA Says Stats Are Making A Difference.(National Committee for Quality Assurance, health plan participants)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition
; The National Committee for Quality Assurance says the 466 health plans participating in its quality programs are staffing to earn higher grades. The plans told the nonprofit Washington quality group they made little progress between 1998 and 1999 on improving eye care for patients with diabetes, or
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A word to the wise: Report your HEDIS data
Managed Healthcare
; ... Quality, page 33). Seems that last year some news organizations used the data generated from ... it's a major blunder. The very fact that news organizations single out the shortfalls ... was a minority, I'm told, and that's good news for the industry as a whole. NCQA is taking ...
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New Online NCQA Reports Show How Well Health Plans Treat Key Illnesses
U.S. Newswire
; WASHINGTON, July 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) today added clinical performance information to its nationally recognized, online Health Plan Report Card (HPRC). The reports show how effectively health plans treat patients in four areas: diabetes, cardiac
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HIPAA might impede HEDIS data collection.
Health Data Management
; Final rules implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 likely will have many repercussions for managed care organizations. One of the first to be felt is the elimination of local claims codes under the final transactions and code sets rule, observers say, which
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NCQA implements HEDIS data audit into its performance standards
Managed Healthcare
; WASHINGTON, D.C.-New performance-based accreditation standards for MCOs from the National Committee for Quality Assurance will require audited data from the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set for the first time. The aim is to examine MCO quality-improvement programs and clinical results
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