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“NCQA is proud to support CMS in this effort,” says Margaret E. O’Kane, NCQA president. “Pay-for-quality is a beautifully simple and effective strategy for improving care. It works for the rest of the economy and it’s time we made health care work the same way.”
The NCQA reports that current payment policies contribute substantially to the health care system’s quality woes by often inadvertently rewarding poor quality. Pay-for-quality programs reward providers based on how well they score on different metrics ranging from clinical quality to member satisfaction.
For more information, visit www.ncqa.org.
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