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Announcing: NCQA's New Accreditation Users Group

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is excited to announce the Accreditation Users Group (AUG). The AUG provides a new communication, learning and development platform for members to discuss updates to existing NCQA Accreditation and Certification products, and how they are applied. AUG members will also have the opportunity to contribute to the enhancement of future products. The AUG will cover the following accreditation and certification products:

• Health Plan (HP) Accreditation
• Disease Management (DM) Accreditation
• Managed Behavioral Healthcare Organization (MBHO) Accreditation
• Wellness and Health Promotion (WHP) Accreditation
• Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) Accreditation
• Case Management (CM) Accreditation
• Disease Management (DM) Certification
• Health Information Products (HIP) Certification
• Physician and Hospital Quality (PHQ) Certification
• Credentials Verification Organization (CVO) Certification
• Utilization Management/Credentialing (UM/CR) Certification
• Medicare Advantage (MA) Deeming
• Multicultural Health Care (MHC) Distinction

AUG members also receive the following benefits during the subscription year:

• A $200 voucher toward an NCQA Accreditation, Certification or HEDIS publication, or toward a license for the Interactive Survey System Survey Tool.
• A $200 voucher toward any NCQA educational seminar.
• A $100 voucher toward NCQA's Quality Compass.
• NCQA WebEx sessions that address key updates and user-expressed topics of interest.
• Access to the Users Group Member Download Center, which include recorded training sessions, presentations and other valuable user-only materials.
• Access to the monthly Users Group newsletter, which lets subscribers know about recent policies and issues that have the potential to affect their organization, and includes information about Webinar trainings, policy updates and publication release dates.

The AUG membership fee is $950 per year, which follows NCQA's standards year (July 1 to June 30).

If you are seeking NCQA Accreditation or Certification for any of the products listed above; provide guidance to organizations covered under the scope of the products; or purchase services from an NCQA-Accredited or NCQA-Certified organization, we invite you to consider joining the AUG.

To sign up for the Accreditation Users Group, click here. If you have any questions about the AUG, please contact Veronica Locke at locke@ncqa.org.