It's good to see NCQA engaging its members in a interactive way!
Announcing:
NCQA's New Accreditation Users Group
The National Committee for Quality
Assurance (NCQA) is excited to announce the Accreditation Users Group (AUG).
The AUG provides a new communication, learning and development platform for
members to discuss updates to existing NCQA Accreditation and Certification
products, and how they are applied. AUG members will also have the opportunity
to contribute to the enhancement of future products. The AUG will cover the
following accreditation and certification products:
- Health
Plan (HP) Accreditation
- Disease
Management (DM) Accreditation
- Managed
Behavioral Healthcare Organization (MBHO) Accreditation
- Wellness
and Health Promotion (WHP) Accreditation
- Accountable
Care Organizations (ACO) Accreditation
- Case
Management (CM) Accreditation
- Disease
Management (DM) Certification
- Health
Information Products (HIP) Certification
- Physician
and Hospital Quality (PHQ) Certification
- Credentials
Verification Organization (CVO) Certification
- Utilization
Management/Credentialing (UM/CR) Certification
- Medicare
Advantage (MA) Deeming
- Multicultural
Health Care (MHC) Distinction
AUG members also receive the following
benefits during the subscription year:
- A
$200 voucher toward an NCQA Accreditation, Certification or HEDIS
publication, or toward a license for the Interactive Survey System Survey
Tool.
- A
$200 voucher toward any NCQA educational seminar.
- A
$100 voucher toward NCQA's Quality Compass.
- NCQA
WebEx sessions that address key updates and user-expressed topics of
interest.
- Access
to the Users Group Member Download Center, which include recorded training
sessions, presentations and other valuable user-only materials.
- Access
to the monthly Users Group newsletter, which lets subscribers know about
recent policies and issues that have the potential to affect their
organization, and includes information about Webinar trainings, policy
updates and publication release dates.
The AUG membership fee is $950 per
year, which follows NCQA's standards year (July 1 to June 30).
If you are seeking NCQA Accreditation or
Certification for any of the products listed above; provide guidance to
organizations covered under the scope of the products; or purchase services
from an NCQA-Accredited or NCQA-Certified organization, we invite you to
consider joining the AUG.
To
sign up for the Accreditation Users Group, click here. If
you have any questions about the AUG, please contact Veronica Locke at locke@ncqa.org.
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Imported/Syndicated Blog Original Publish Date : Thu, Jun 28, 2012