Heads Up: HEDIS® Public Comment Opens Next Week
February 5, 2025 · NCQA Communications
Every year, NCQA seeks public comment about proposed changes to measures.
Public comment is your opportunity to weigh in on the relevance, scientific soundness and feasibility of new and revised measures for HEDIS, with a special item for the Diabetes Recognition Program. The feedback NCQA receives helps us determine changes to our programs, procedures and processes.
This year’s public comment is open Thursday, February 13–Thursday, March 13.
What Are We Seeking Feedback On?
We’d like input on:
- Three new HEDIS measures.
- Revising six HEDIS measures.
- Retiring one HEDIS measure.
- Cross-cutting HEDIS updates to the race and ethnicity stratifications.
- Three new measures for the Diabetes Recognition Program.
Why Should You Comment?
NCQA measures are based on published clinical guidelines and scientific evidence. When guidelines change or new evidence becomes available in the scientific literature, NCQA reviews measures to determine if measure changes may be needed.
NCQA convenes multi-stakeholder advisory panels—including independent scientists, clinicians, health plans, purchasers, government and consumer groups—to ensure that measures meet and balance the high standards of relevance, scientific soundness and feasibility.
Public review and comment is an important part of developing and updating NCQA measures. NCQA reviews all comments received during public comment and presents results to advisory panels and to the NCQA Committee on Performance Measurement for deliberation.
How Can You Comment?
This year’s public comment will go live Thursday, February 13, 9:00a.m. ET.
We’ll post the link and more details here, so check back.
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