About this Self Paced Webinar

See Yourself in NCQA’s Health Equity Accreditation Programs Standards

Join us for a special overview of NCQA’s Health Equity Accreditation and Health Equity Accreditation Plus programs. This session will cover:

• A high-level overview of program standards, highlighting how NCQA's framework helps payers, care delivery providers and other health care organizations to individually--and collaboratively--work to address inequities.

• Key changes and updates for the 2023 standards and guidelines, including automatic credit.

Attendees will learn why these programs are fundamental to helping health care organizations build high standards of care for their populations and become more familiar with the things they are best positioned to do with NCQA's accreditation.

What You Will Learn

At the end of this session, participants will:

• Become familiar with NCQA Health Equity Accreditation program standards that help payers, care delivery providers and other health care organizations to individually--and collaboratively--work to address inequities.

• Recognize key changes and updates for the 2023 standards and guidelines, including automatic credit.

Who Should Attend

• Health Plans
• Health Systems 
• Hospitals
• Accountable Care Orgs
• Providers
• Managed Behavioral Healthcare Orgs 
• Population Health Orgs
• Wellness Orgs
• Leveragers in the Federal Government, States and Employers 

Faculty

 
Liz Ryder
Assistant Director, Product Management
NCQA

Liz Ryder (she/her) is Assistant Director in Product Management at NCQA. In this role, she leads NCQA’s cross-functional team tasked with identifying opportunities to embed expectations for health equity into all NCQA programs and pursuing new opportunities to advance health equity amid a rapidly evolving health care landscape.

Continuing Education

This is a non-accredited activity.

DISCLOSURE OF RELEVANT FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) endorses the Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education which specify that sponsors of continuing medical education activities and presenters at and planners for these activities disclose any relevant financial relationships either party might have with commercial companies whose products or services are discussed in educational presentations.

For sponsors, relevant financial relationships include large research grants, institutional agreements for joint initiatives, substantial gifts, or other relationships that benefit the institution.  For presenters or planning committee members, relevant financial relationships include the receipt of research grants from a commercial company, consultancies, honoraria, travel, or other benefits, or having a self-managed equity interest in a company; or having an immediate family member or partner with such a relationship.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

Relevant financial relationships exist with the following companies/organizations:

Faculty:
Liz Ryder: None

Additional Planning Committee Member:
Crissy Crittenden: None

This program was developed in part by NCQA staff.

This program received no commercial support.

Related Content:
NCQA Health Innovation Summit, October 23-25, 2023. 
Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center
Orlando, Florida