National Committee for Quality Assurance

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving healthcare quality and committed to measurement, transparency, and accountability at all levels of the healthcare system.

NCQA works with policy leaders, employers, doctors, health plans, consumer advocates, researchers and other experts to identify important areas of healthcare, develop new measures to assess performance, and drive improvement. NCQA’s clinical quality measures form the basis of HEDIS®, the most widely used set of quality measures in the healthcare industry.

“There is a great deal that can be done today to dramatically improve the safety and quality of healthcare for all Americans. But these improvements are unevenly implemented,” said Margaret O’Kane, President of NCQA and Co-Chair of the National Priorities Partnership. “The National Priorities Partnership represents a clear, sustained call from America’s leading healthcare organizations—including NCQA—to act on the knowledge we have today to deliver all Americans the safety and consistent high performance we all deserve.”

NCQA’s contributions to the healthcare system have had a significant impact on healthcare and continue to do so today. This is best measured in the broad adoption of HEDIS—more than one in three Americans are covered by such reporting—and the year-to-year improvements in performance documented in NCQA reports.

To learn more about NCQA, please visit www.ncqa.org.
NCQA offers a wide array of accreditation and certification programs for healthcare organizations. NCQA accreditation is widely regarded as the most rigorous in the healthcare industry; it is the only such program that requires reporting on clinical quality. NCQA also recognizes high-performing physicians in five areas of care.
Who we are
NCQA develops performance measures and information that can be used by everyone in the healthcare sphere, including consumers, policymakers, and employers.