NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Shearwater Health, a leader in clinician-led clinical outsourcing solutions, announced today that it earned a three-year Utilization Management (UM) ...

The Health Insurance Disparities Index allows stakeholders to assess progress in addressing health care disparities using publicly available, validated, reported health plan quality metrics results.

The use of quality measurement to identify opportunities for improvement in how, where, and when care is delivered has driven remarkable advances and saved countless lives. At the same time, ...

The retiring leader stresses the need for quality to be embedded in healthcare’s systems as a business imperative. On its website, the National Committee for Quality Assurance notes: “Before NCQA, ...

National Committee for Quality Assurance health equity accreditation features six standards such as organizational readiness and availability of language services. Health equity has become a top ...

Utilizing the Health Insurance Disparities Index for assessment, the authors found that New York’s Medicaid health maintenance organizations (HMOs) outperformed Medicaid HMOs nationally in addressing ...

As the configuration of the U.S. health care system continues to shift, it is increasingly important to assess the impact of the various changes, not just on national health spending, but on public ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

It's not easy for patients to know whether they're getting quality care from their doctor. Even medical professionals can't always judge this. Quality management in health care works to measure the ...