Share Your Feedback: Data Collection Approaches for Disability Status

October 29, 2024 · NCQA Communications

NCQA seeks to promote health equity and improve access to high-quality, inclusive health care for people with disabilities. We discovered—through ongoing engagement with community stakeholders and a detailed review of existing literature—that the lack of standardized disability status data collection is a prominent barrier to advancing care and equitable representation.

NCQA is developing a HEDIS^® measure concept to assess the number and percentage of members for whom health plans collect information about disability status—similar to our efforts to encourage collection of member race/ethnicity and preferred language.

To support this effort, we are gathering information about the current state of disability status data collection across health plans and systems, including the frequency and type of disability status data collected, and the feasibility of a measure concept to be implemented at the health plan level.

Complete the Survey by November 12

Your insights are important for determining the potential measure’s feasibility and validity. Please fill out a brief survey by November 12. The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.

NCQA will evaluate all results anonymously, and will not disclose organization identifiers when reporting survey results. If you have any questions, please contact us.

HEDIS^® is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).