A program of evaluation designed to assist employers and other health purchasers to compare health plans by examining a core set of performance measures. This system is one of the first attempts to objectively measure the quality of MCOs and has been widely criticized as being insufficiently focused on clinical outcomes.
Measures, now part of the NCQA Accreditation process, used by all health plans to evaluate performance in areas ranging from preventative care and consumer experience to heart disease and cancer. With HEDIS, purchasers and consumers can reliably compare the quality of managed care plans.
The result of a coordinated development effort by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) to provide a group of performance measures that gives employers some objective information with which to evaluate health plans and hold them accountable; HEDIS helps ensure that plans and purchasers of care are speaking the same language when they are comparing value and accountability. (HEDIS(tm) is a registered trademark of NCQA.)
(see also Report Card on Health Care): A set of performance measures designed by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) to enable health plans, employers, and others to compare the performance of different health plans.
A set of standardized measures of health plan performance. HEDIS allows comparisons between plans on quality, access and patient satisfaction; membership and utilization; financial information; and health plan management. HEDIS was developed by employers, HMOs, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
A set of performance measures designed to help health care purchasers understand the value of health care purchases and measure the performance of multiple health plans.
A set of performance measures designed to help healthcare purchasers understand the value of potential and/or current healthcare purchases and enable them to compare health plan performance.
A set of performance measures designed to standardize the way health plans report data to employers. HEDIS currently measures five major areas of health plan performance: quality, access and patient satisfaction, membership and utilization, finance, and descriptive information on health plan management.
HEDIS is a set of standardized performance measures designed to ensure that purchasers and consumers have the information they need to reliably compare the performance of managed health care plans. HEDIS is sponsored, supported and maintained by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
A core set of measures by which employers can compare the value of their health care dollars across a variety of health care plans.
The Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a widely used set of performance measures in the managed care industry, developed and maintained by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. HEDIS was designed to allow consumers to compare health plan performance to other plans and to national or regional benchmarks. Although not originally intended for trending, HEDIS results are increasingly used to track year-to-year performance.