Developing HEDIS Follow-Up Measures for Cancer Screening

About the HEDIS Project

What gets measured gets done. Cancer Screening is a continuum of steps that includes timely follow-up of abnormal test results. This often is not addressed in current measures. The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) is a widely used tool to compare health plans on important facets of care delivery. Over 190 million people are enrolled in plans that report HEDIS results.

Our Work

The project seeks to develop a new HEDIS measure that assesses the results and follow-up of existing HEDIS measures for breast and cervical cancer screening; and examine in detail some existing cancer screening measures to assess if one can examine the screening strategy used (e.g., in cervical cancer or breast cancer screening).

HEDIS is maintained by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a not-for-profit organization committed to evaluating and publicly reporting on the quality of health plans, ACOs, physicians, and other organizations. NCQA serves as a partner to NNPHI on the “Developing HEDIS follow-up measures for cancer screening” project, funded by CDC through NNPHI’s Cooperative Agreement.

Our Impact

The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) is a set of standardized performance measures designed to ensure that purchasers and consumers can reliably compare the performance of health plans. It also serves as a model for emerging systems of performance measurement in other areas of health care delivery.

Upon completion, the project aims to aims to develop at least 2 follow-up HEDIS measures and finalize them for release.

Contact Us

For more information, please contact us at collaboration@nnphi.org.

This project is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award (NOFO OT18-1802, titled Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation’s Health) totaling $350,000 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.