NCQA: The National Committee for Quality Assurance

Washington, DC

Every other Wednesday on NCQA’s “Inside Health Care” podcast, the host Dave Smolar interviews the health care industry’s most prolific thought leaders to extract their secrets on how they work to improve health care quality. Listeners can count on us for up-to-date information on everything from delivery reform to patient experience. Catch the show anytime at blog.ncqa.org or stream, follow, and download the show from Apple, Google and other podcast apps. NCQA—the National Committee for Quality Assurance—exists to improve health care in America. As a not-for-profit Quality leader in the Health Care world, we want to make care better for everyone. We set expectations of health care organizations, measure their performance, and highlight those that do well. And we use Science to help us build better health, and better choices, for all Americans. Through measurement, transparency and accountability, we highlight top performers and drive improvement. We began in the early 1990’s by measuring and then accrediting health plans. Today, we measure the quality of medical providers and practices. And we succeed on the basis of our quality products and services and the ethical way we do business.