The HEDIS Shift

Just this [past week, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) launched its Race and Ethnicity Stratification Learning Network, an online tool offers data and best practices to help health plans improve how they collect race and ethnicity data on their enrollees (see NCQA Launches Race And Ethnicity Stratification Learning Network To Advance Health Equity). This new resource provides data on five HEDIS measures, stratified by race and ethnicity, for 20 million people enrolled in 14 health plans.

This initiative follows changes made to HEDIS measures last year, when NCQA introduced new quality measure reporting to make health plan performance . . .