MHS Achieves National Accreditation, Commendable Status from the National Committee for Quality Assurance

Posted 6 December 2010 by aborgmeyer & filed under Press Release, Provider News.

MHS has achieved national Health Plan Accreditation with a Commendable status from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The NCQA Health Plan Accreditation is a nationally-recognized evaluation that purchasers, regulators and consumers can use to assess health plans.

NCQA Accreditation evaluates how well a health plan manages all parts of its delivery system — physicians, hospitals, other providers and administrative services — in order to continuously improve the quality of care and services provided to its members. NCQA Accreditation surveys include rigorous onsite and offsite evaluations conducted by a team of physicians and health plan experts. A national oversight committee of physicians analyzes the team’s findings and assigns an accreditation level based on the performance level of each plan being evaluated to NCQA’s standards. MHS was awarded a status of Commendable.

“Achieving an accreditation status of Commendable from NCQA is a sign that a health plan is serious about quality,” said Margaret E. O’Kane, president of NCQA. “It is awarded to plans whose service and clinical quality meet or exceed NCQA’s rigorous requirements for consumer protection and quality improvement.”

“NCQA Health Plan Accreditation evaluates the quality of healthcare that health plans provide to their members,” said MHS CEO Patrick Rooney. “We are very proud to have received a Commendable status, as we continuously make it a priority to offer our members the highest quality healthcare programs and services.”