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Managed Care October 2000	HEDIS Performance: Routine reporting drives improvement Results published in NCQA's State of Managed Care Quality 2000 put a stake in the ground in terms of how well health plans care for members with costly chronic conditions -- and established how much room exists for improvement.
Managed Care April 2000	NCQA To Put Report Cards On the Web The National Committee for Quality Assurance hopes to elevate the degree to which quality of care factors into people's choice of health plans. NCQA is placing health plan report cards on its web site...
Managed Care November 2005	Quality Improves at Nation's Health Plans The National Committee for Quality Assurance's annual report states the quality of health plans that report have improved quality, but there is also a rise of consumer-directed health plans which do not report on quality.
Managed Care March 2000	NCQA Unveils New PPO Accreditation Program, HEDIS '01
Managed Care August 2005	NCQA Compares Plans On Chronic Disease The National Committee for Quality Assurance plans to offer a snapshot based on its well-known HEDIS report that it hopes will let employers and workers get a quick, but comprehensive, view of how health plans handle four chronic diseases.
Managed Care June 2007	Headlines On Deadline ... NCQA has published an expanded set of measures, guidelines, and technical specifications...A new strategy proposed by America's Health Insurance Plans would create an independent entity to compare the safety... etc.
Managed Care November 2007	Substantial Increase Seen in PPO Quality Reporting Interest in PPO quality reporting has expanded to the public sector as well, according to the report. The Medicare program and the federal Office of Personnel Management now require PPO plans to engage in HEDIS reporting.
Managed Care October 2004	Quality at Accredited Health Plans Takes Big Step Forward The quality of care delivered by health plans that report performance data to the National Committee for Quality Assurance improved markedly in 2003.
Managed Care March 2001 John A. Marcille	Should That Apple a Day Be Red, Green, or Golden? So if everyone's at least in agreement that preventing illness should be a common goal, why is a mutual understanding of "prevention" so elusive?
Managed Care March 2007 Tom Reinke	NCQA Shifts Focus On Physician Performance NCQA's 2007 HEDIS physician performance manual puts greater emphasis on cost of care. Many organizations, including some health plans, use these specifications to evaluate physician performance.
Managed Care September 2007	NCQA Standards Focus on PPO Performance Preferred provider organizations that are seeking National Committee for Quality Assurance accreditation will now be required to report clinical quality results through HEDIS.
Managed Care October 2007	Second DMAA Report Issued The Disease Management Association of America has issued the second volume of the "Outcomes Guidelines Report."
Managed Care October 2000 Kevin A. Wilson	Public Policy Largely Ignores Adult Immunization Needs Although four fifths of the nation's children are fully immunized, tens of thousands of adults die each year from diseases preventable by vaccination...
American Family Physician November 15, 2005 Sanford R. Kimmel	Prevention of Meningococcal Disease Invasive disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis has an average annual incidence of one case per 100,000 in the United States. The disease can be rapidly fatal or result in severe neurologic and vascular sequelae despite antibiotic therapy.
Managed Care September 1999	Physicians Seen As Next in Line For NCQA Review The National Committee for Quality Assurance says it will begin an accreditation program for medical groups two years from now....
Managed Care March 2007	NCQA Toughens Evaluation of PPOs Preferred provider organizations will be evaluated on the same set of standards, clinical measures, and patient experience ratings that the NCQA uses to evaluate HMOs and POS plans.
Managed Care January 2005 Sharon Baker	Breast Cancer Screening: Some Plans Do Better Than Others Some of the nation's best health plans are coming up with creative ways to encourage women to get mammograms.
American Family Physician November 15, 2006 Stephen J. Ritz	STEPS Tetravalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Menactra) for the prevention of meningococcal disease.
Insurance & Technology September 2, 2008 Nathan Conz	WellPoint Launches Women's Health Campaign Indianapolis-based WellPoint has launched the Women's Health and Wellness Action Campaign, which employs data analytics and computer telephony technologies to identify and notify members who have not undergone timely mammograms or cervical cancer screenings.
Managed Care March 2002	NCQA To Help CMS Monitor Quality of M+C Plans The National Committee for Quality Assurance has been tapped to help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly HCFA) monitor plans that participate in Medicare+Choice...
Managed Care December 2006	NCQA Rankings Give Edge to Not-For-Profit Insurers No sooner had the quality rankings of health plans in the nation, as measured by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, been released then it was pointed out that most of the top performers were not-for-profit insurers.
Managed Care April 2002	NCQA To Judge Plans on Drug Monitoring Health plans could soon be required to develop systems to prevent drug interactions, as well as systems to monitor drug recalls and FDA alerts, under proposed accreditation standards issued recently by the National Committee for Quality Assurance...
Managed Care August 2004 Bob Carlson	Preparing for NCQA: What Not To Do Deciding to seek NCQA accreditation sets an HMO up for lots of preparatory work. Make sure the effort is well spent.
Health May 2008 Jessica Snyder Sachs	Seven Vaccines You Need Right Now Why those childhood shots (whooping cough, mumps, and more) may have worn off - and what to do.
Managed Care June 2001	'Quality of care' in eye of beholder The AMA, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance have crafted a common set of performance measures for management of adult diabetes...
BusinessWeek July 25, 2005 Catherine Arnst	O.K., Roll Up Your Sleeve New vaccines are arriving but the economics are still a challenge.
American Family Physician December 1, 2002 Sanford R. Kimmel	Vaccine Adverse Events: Separating Myth from Reality Vaccines have turned many childhood diseases into distant memories in industrialized countries. However, questions have been raised about the safety of some vaccines because of rare but serious adverse effects that have been attributed to them.
Managed Care January 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Transparency Called Key To Uniting Cost Control, Quality Improvement NCQA President Margaret O'Kane and a panel of clinically oriented administrators call for emphasis on making the best care financially attractive to physicians, plans, and employers.
American Family Physician September 15, 2006 Mark Shatsky	Rotavirus Vaccine, Live, Oral, Pentavalent (RotaTeq) for Prevention of Rotavirus Gastroenteritis Although costly, rotavirus pentavalent vaccine has been shown to be safe, with no increased risk of intussusception. It also has shown to reduce the need for hospitalization and emergency department visits connected with rotavirus gastroenteritis.
Managed Care October 2007	Headlines On Deadline... Health insurance premiums rose an average of 6.1% in 2007... Employers are backing the development of Web-based health records... Commercial health plans posted improvements in 30 of 44 quality of care measures...
Managed Care November 1999 Margaret E. O'Kane	Quality-Measurement Organizations Look Beyond HMO and POS Plans Now that the hard part -- forging quality-measurement systems for HMOs and point-of-service plans -- has been done, the next step is to adapt these programs to the rest of the health care industry....
Managed Care April 2001	Purchasers Still Not Focused On Quality, Says Business Group It's a common lament that all but the biggest companies buy health benefits primarily on the basis of price, not quality. New findings by the Washington Business Group on Health back up that assertion...
Managed Care November 1999	NCQA-AMA Plan Would Reduce Paper Duplication ...NCQA will allow health plans to use data from AMA's American Medical Accreditation Program to satisfy NCQA's credentialing standards....
Managed Care July 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	Money Pit: Is Accreditation Always Worth the Cost? Some plans swear by the benefits of obtaining an "excellent." Others say that customers care much more about cost.
Managed Care August 2005 John Carroll	California Doctors Fear That NCQA Would Be Too Lenient With Plans Should the National Committee for Quality Assurance take over part of the job of overseeing health plans? It seems to be working in some states.
Managed Care March 2001 Michael D. Dalzell	Preventive Care: Can We Do a Better Job? HMOs place great stock in disease prevention, but some highly recommended services go uncovered. Plans and purchasers often don't agree on priorities...
Managed Care September 1999	Headlines on Deadline... Healthcare industry news briefs.
American Family Physician August 1, 2006 David S. Gregory	Pertussis: A Disease Affecting All Ages Bordetella pertussis is a highly contagious bacterium known to cause pertussis (whooping cough) and is transmitted via airborne droplets. Although childhood vaccination has dramatically reduced reported pertussis cases, the incidence of the disease has increased over the past 20 years.
Managed Care January 2008 Martin Sipkoff	Should Pharmacists Be Allowed To Vaccinate Their Patients? Although federal health agencies support the idea of having pharmacists administer vaccines to their patients, the roadblock continues to be a question of payment.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2010	Risk Management Tops Audit Committee's Stress List Highlights of the latest quarterly research in conjunction with Grant Thornton LLP.
Managed Care November 2004	Pharmaceutical Management of Depression Lags The quality of care delivered by health plans that publicly report their performance improved from last year, but gaps in quality remain and contribute from 42,000 to 79,000 avoidable deaths every year.
Managed Care November 2005	NCQA Wonders: Who Keeps Tab On Consumer Plans? National Committee for Quality Assurance is worried about the increase of consumer-directed health plans which tend not to measure or report on their performance.
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American Family Physician July 15, 2003 Sur et al.	Vaccinations in Pregnancy Routine vaccines that generally are safe to administer during pregnancy include diphtheria, tetanus, influenza, and hepatitis B. Other vaccines, such as meningococcal and rabies, may be considered.
American Family Physician July 1, 2004 Lo Re & Gluckman	Travel Immunizations The approach to vaccine recommendations should be based on a thorough assessment of the risks for travel-related diseases, the time available before trip departure, and current knowledge of the epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Salon.com March 8, 2001 Amy Standen	Ready for some lockjaw? There's no profit in the tetanus vaccine business, so a rare and hideous disease may soon strike more Americans...
Managed Care August 2002	NCQA: Law Prevents Weighing Racial, Ethnic Care Disparities Public policy must change before the National Committee for Quality Improvement can insist that health plans collect and report data that can be used to highlight disparities in care among racial and ethnic groups, according to an NCQA spokesman.
The Motley Fool March 9, 2010 Brian Orelli	Are Billions of Dollars in Revenue at Risk? Vaccine makers' lawsuit protection is called into question.
Managed Care March 2006 Lola Butcher	Major Companies Behind Push for Quality Measures Health plans and employers are convinced that improving quality will save money. This time, they think they've got the data.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Pasternak et al.	Vaccines: Market on the Rebound The vaccine business was safely inoculated against higher profits. But innovative therapies and looser government controls may spark an outbreak. Are pharmaceuticals ready for this opportunity?