Behavioral Health HEDIS® Measures: An Annual Update From NCQA©

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) collects information on the performance of health care service delivery from health plans covering more than 191 million people using its proprietary Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set, or HEDIS. One of health care’s most widely used performance improvement tools, HEDIS consists of more than 90 measures over six domains of care. In the behavioral health realm, HEDIS assesses depression screening and follow-up, medication adherence, access, care coordination, opioid overuse, and more.1 NCQA speaker Lyndsey Nguyen provides an update on HEDIS behavioral health measures and reviews changes for measurement year 2022.


Featuring
• Lyndsey Nguyen currently serves as a Senior Health Care Analyst in the Performance Measurement Department at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). She manages, leads, and coordinates activities related to the development of quality metrics for U.S. health care. Her areas of focus include mental health, substance use, and pain management. Ms. Nguyen holds an M.S. degree in physiology (complementary and alternative medicine) from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in cognitive science from the University of Virginia.
• Tara McKinley, PharmD, is a Managed Market Liaison for Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.

1. HEDIS. (2021, July 15). Retrieved from https://www.ncqa.org/hedis/.

Lyndsey Nguyen is a paid consultant of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.

Tara McKinley, PharmD is an employee of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.


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