NCQA To Give Doctors Checkups

The National Committee for Quality Assurance wants to help patients, employers and health plans evaluate the quality of services provided by individual physician practices.

The NCQA, Washington, a group best known for efforts to develop scientifically tested measures for evaluating health plans, has released a draft of physician practice quality measures for public comment.

Many of the measures have been adopted by other physical quality measurement programs, the NCQA says.