NCQA Blog » Controlling Costs

In this episode of Inside Health Care, Peggy O’Kane, NCQA President, and Dr. Vivian Lee, President of Verily Life Sciences, discuss Lee’s book, The Long Fix: Solving America’s Health Care C...

https://www.ncqa.org/blog/inside-health-care-45-ncqas-peggy-okane-and-verily-life-sciences-dr-vivian-lee-discuss-the-state-of-health-care/

COVID-19 brought a lot of adjustments. Telehealth is one of them. Now, there are plans in place to permanently expand reimbursement for telehealth services. The Trump administration took action t...

https://www.ncqa.org/blog/telehealth-is-here-to-stay-but-what-about-payment/

Primary care is struggling in the COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic brought revenue reductions and increased costs. Next in line for many practices may be imminent closure. So, we reached out to H...

https://www.ncqa.org/blog/ncqa-shares-primary-concerns-with-hhs/

Hey, are your arteries blocked? Did your doctor tell you that you need a stent or an angioplasty? It’s unlikely that you need it. An angioplasty is historically the answer for block arteries. L...

https://www.ncqa.org/blog/angioplasty-do-you-really-need-it/

As you may know, some insurers established global payments to drive higher quality and lower costs in health care. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) shows how on...

https://www.ncqa.org/blog/less-spending-better-care-population-based-global-payment-study/

What an opportunity! You can share success stories and best practices with your peers. You could join a group of the top professionals in the healthcare industry. The Ask We want you to submit a ...

https://www.ncqa.org/blog/quality-congress-its-your-turn-to-share/

NCQA traveled to Midlothian Village, Virginia, to get an “up-close and personal” perspective of how patient-centered coordinated care has transformed the quality of health care at Pediatric a...

https://www.ncqa.org/blog/patient-centered-coordinated-care-in-midlothian-village/

We have redesigned NCQA’s main website—ncqa.org—to give people who care about health care quality important capabilities. Simpler, Shorter Descriptions We rewrote descriptions of NCQA’s m...

https://www.ncqa.org/blog/new-website-helps-you/

“Value over volume.” NCQA promotes it. We have for a very long time. It’s why you hear us talk so much about common sense health objectives like Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), and o...

https://www.ncqa.org/blog/4925-2/

Any time more people get access to health care, we at NCQA think it’s a great thing. That’s why Virginia’s decision to expand Medicaid to more than 400,000 people this past week is good new...

https://www.ncqa.org/blog/virginia-expands-medicaid-now-what/