NCQA’s Quality Compass Helps Plans and Consumers Compare Clinical Performance

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Database features quality information for approximately 104 million insured lives.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has released its latest version of Quality Compass 2015: Commercial. This comprehensive database of health plan performance compiles data from 400 publicly reporting commercial plan products, offering information on clinical performance and patient experience for approximately 104 million covered lives. 

The updated Quality Compass tool features performance data on active commercial health plans pulled from both the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) and Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®).

Quality Compass is a valuable tool for health plans, employers, and consumers. Itprovides state, regional, and national benchmarks, as well as individual plan performance. Benchmarks, or national averages for certain measures, are calculated from a total pool of 420 publicly and non-publicly reporting health plan products. Health plans use this information to help compare their performance to others in their area and across the country. Employers and purchasers use the information to choose the best-performing plans to offer their enrollees.

Quality Compass 2015: Commercial includes the following new and updated measures from the HEDIS Effectiveness of Care domain: 

  • Cervical Cancer Screening
  • Non-Recommended Cervical Cancer Screening in Adolescent Females

“Health plans, employers and other consumers look to Quality Compass to pinpoint areas where plans are performing well, or that need improvement,” said NCQA’s Chief Information Officer, Rick Moore. “Offering the most comprehensive data set available lets consumers make sound decisions when choosing their plan.”

NCQA will release the Medicaid and Medicare editions of Quality Compass later this fall.

All Quality Compass editions can be ordered online through NCQA’s website, www.ncqa.org/qualitycompass.aspx, or by calling NCQA Customer Support at 888-275-7585.