Quality Matters: An Update From NCQA On Behavioral Health Measurement Trends

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) collects information on the performance of health care service delivery from health plans covering more than 191 million people using its proprietary Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set, or HEDIS. One of health care’s most widely used performance improvement tools, HEDIS consists of more than 90 measures over six domains of care. Within the behavioral health market, HEDIS assesses depression screening and follow-up, medication adherence, access, care coordination, opioid overuse, and more. 1 NCQA …