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The National Committee for Quality Assurance ( NCQA) is an independent 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization in the United States that works to improve health care quality through the administration of evidence-based standards, measures, programs, and accreditation. The National Committee for Quality Assurance operates on a formula of measure ...
United States Public Health Service. Website. www.ahrq.gov. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality[ 1] ( AHRQ; pronounced "ark" by initiates and often "A-H-R-Q" by the public) is one of twelve agencies within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). [ 2] The agency is headquartered in North Bethesda, Maryland, a ...
Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) refers to a set of surveys that ask patients to report on their health care experiences. [ 1] The surveys are free to anyone who wants to use them. They focus on aspects of healthcare quality that patients find important and are well-equipped to assess, such as the communication ...
The FMCSA will partner with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in getting states to participate in uniform crash reporting standards. [ 25 ] In September 2018 the FMCSA began small-scale testing using an Item Response Theory (IRT) model to replace the Safety Measurement System with plans for full testing in 2019.
National Quality Forum (NQF) is a United States-based non-profit membership organization that promotes patient protections and healthcare quality through measurement and public reporting. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was established in 1999 based on recommendations by the President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care ...
Certification inspections, conducted primarily by state agencies, are intended to ensure that hospices meet health and safety requirements required as a condition of Medicare participation. Accreditation inspections — also meant to ensure health and safety standards are met — are conducted by private organizations paid for by hospice providers.
The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set ( HEDIS) is a widely used set of performance measures in the managed care industry, developed and maintained by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). HEDIS was designed to allow consumers to compare health plan performance to other plans and to national or regional benchmarks.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The consolidation of pharmacies and health insurance companies through years of dealmaking has led to a handful of pharmacy benefit managers exercising outsized influence ...