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Information Page How Is Health Equity Important to Your Organization?

Last modified 06.16.2022
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Health Equity Accreditation focuses on the foundation of health equity work: building an internal culture that supports the organization’s external health equity work; collecting data that help…

Information Page Resources to Support Equity Action

Last modified 03.27.2024
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Resources to Support Equity Action The resources below include tools, best practices and foundational references that can help inform organizational efforts to put equity into…

Information Page NCQA’s Health Equity Accreditation Programs

Last modified 08.04.2023
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THE HEALTH EQUITY JOURNEY Improving health equity requires engagement and partnerships across the entire health care industry, as well as with industry stakeholders such as…

Information Page Learn How: Novant Health Is Advancing Health Equity Initiatives

Last modified 07.10.2023
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Improving health equity requires engagement and partnerships across the entire health care industry as well as with industry stakeholders such as employers, regulators and community-based…

Information Page Health Equity Research

Last modified 06.03.2022
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Health Equity Research Mitigating the adverse effects of health inequities—as well as addressing their origins in American institutions, structures and systems—requires collaboration across the health…

Comment Letter NCQA Responds to CMS RFI: Episode-Based Payment Model

Last modified 08.18.2023
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NCQA provides comments on the CMS RFI in the following areas: care delivery and incentive structure alignment; quality measures, interoperability and multi-payer alignment; and health equity.

Comment Letter NCQA Comments on OMB’s Initial Proposals for Updating Race and Ethnicity Standards

Last modified 07.26.2023
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NCQA supports the expansion of race and ethnicity categories and encourages OMB to provide guidance on implementation to ensure data are meaningful and usable.

Comment Letter NCQA Comments on Proposed 2024 ACA Exchange/Marketplace Rules

Last modified 01.31.2023
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NCQA urges CMS to require Health Equity Accreditation for Exchange plans

Comment Letter NCQA Responds to CMS RFI on Establishing a National Directory of Healthcare Providers & Services

Last modified 12.13.2022
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NCQA shares feedback on CMS’s proposal to leverage emerging standards to increase accuracy and reliability of provider directories and help patients find providers that meet their individual care and cultural needs.

Comment Letter NCQA Comments on Medicare Advantage

Last modified 11.03.2022
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance shares recommendations with CMS on how to advance health equity, expand access in coverage and care, and drive innovation to promote person-centered care.

Comment Letter NCQA Comments on CMS’s 2023 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule

Last modified 06.17.2022
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NCQA is pleased to provide comments on CMS’s considerations for the future of digital quality measurement and principles for measuring health care disparities across CMS quality programs.