(NCQA: Washington) -- The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recently released Quality Compass 2010: Commercial, the nation’s leading database of comparable information on clinical performance and patient experience for 404 commercial health plan products serving 94 million covered lives.

Quality Compass 2010: Commercial compares the clinical performance of participating HMO, POS, and PPO health plans and is the most comprehensive database containing Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) and Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) data in the United States. The tool allows users to examine quality improvement, benchmark plans’ performance, and facilitate competitor analysis. Quality Compass 2010: Commercial also provides state, regional, and national benchmarks.

Quality Compass 2010: Commercial includes the following new measures:

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