The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) seeks to promote health equity and improve access to high-quality, inclusive health care for persons with disabilities. Our ongoing engagement with community stakeholders, and a detailed review of existing literature, identified a lack of standardized disability status data collection as a prominent gap in advancing care and equitable representation. An NCQA initiative will measure equitable care and establish high-quality care standards for that population. This includes updates to Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) measures and to NCQA’s Accreditation and Recognition programs.

Stakeholders recommended prioritizing collection of disability status data to increase availability and completeness and support future stratification or risk adjustment efforts. As a result, NCQA is developing a HEDIS® measure concept to assess the number and percentage of members for whom health plans collect information about disability status.

Survey results will be used to gather information about the current state of disability status data collection across health plans and systems, including an approximation of the frequency and type of disability status data collected, and the feasibility of a measure concept to be implemented at the health plan level. NCQA will evaluate all results anonymously and will not disclose organization identifiers when reporting survey results.

HEDIS® is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
 
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