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Virginia Expands Medicaid… Now What?
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Any time more people get access to health care, we at NCQA think it’s a great thing. That’s why Virginia’s decision to expand Medicaid to more than 400,000 people this past week...
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The Stark Law: Waivers for Quality
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - “Value over volume.” NCQA promotes it. We have for a very long time. It’s why you hear us talk so much about common sense health objectives like Accountable Care Organizations...
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New Website: How It Helps You
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We have redesigned NCQA’s main website—ncqa.org—to give people who care about health care quality important capabilities. Simpler, Shorter Descriptions We rewrote descriptions of...
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Patient-Centered Coordinated Care in Midlothian Village
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - NCQA traveled to Midlothian Village, Virginia, to get an “up-close and personal” perspective of how patient-centered coordinated care has transformed the quality of health care at...
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Quality Congress: It’s Your Turn to Share
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - What an opportunity! You can share success stories and best practices with your peers. You could join a group of the top professionals in the healthcare industry. The Ask We want...
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Less Spending Better Care: Population-based Global Payment Study
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - As you may know, some insurers established global payments to drive higher quality and lower costs in health care. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine...
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Angioplasty, Do You Really Need It?
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Hey, are your arteries blocked? Did your doctor tell you that you need a stent or an angioplasty? It’s unlikely that you need it. An angioplasty is historically the answer for...
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NCQA Shares Primary Care Concerns With HHS
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Primary care is struggling in the COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic brought revenue reductions and increased costs. Next in line for many practices may be imminent closure. So, we...
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Telehealth is Here to Stay, But What About Payment?
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - COVID-19 brought a lot of adjustments. Telehealth is one of them. Now, there are plans in place to permanently expand reimbursement for telehealth services. The Trump...
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Inside Health Care #45: NCQA’s Peggy O’Kane and Verily Life Sciences’ Dr....
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - In this episode of Inside Health Care, Peggy O’Kane, NCQA President, and Dr. Vivian Lee, President of Verily Life Sciences, discuss Lee’s book, The Long Fix: Solving America’s...
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The Double-Edged Sword: Insured and Still at Risk
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We assume that having health insurance will stave off the possibility of overwhelming medical debt. Our premiums add to our insurance company’s deep pot of money—the pot it will...
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PCMH Works. Needs Consensus on Standards and Incentives.
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - If you follow coordinated care policy closely, then you’ve likely already seen the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative’s (PCPCC) PCMH Annual Review of Evidence released...
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Recognition Redesign Google Hangout: We Tried It. We liked It.
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - The Google Hangout: Recognition Redesign It’s finally here for your viewing pleasure, a cleaned up version of the NCQA Google Hangout discussing our Recognition Redesign efforts....
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Public Policy Roundup
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - NCQA gives a rundown of the best national, state and private sector health care articles from the week. Here are our picks for today’s Public Policy Weekly Clips. National: NCQA’s...
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The American Health Care Act: A Public Policy Update
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - As you know, late last week the U.S House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) on a 217–213 vote. We asked our Public Policy Team to break it down for us....
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Quality Talks 2017 Martin Makary: Measure What Matters
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Professor of Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...
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Quality Talks 2017 Josh Rosenthal, PhD: 50 Shades of Variation
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Josh Rosenthal, PhD Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, RowdMap, Inc. The book and the Brad Pitt movie, “Moneyball” is a true story. It’s about underdogs who use data to...
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