Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance

The Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA) is a broad based collaborative of physicians, consumers, purchasers, health insurance plans and others. The mission of the AQA is to "improve health care quality and patient safety through a collaborative process in which key stakeholders agree on a strategy for measuring performance at the physician or group level; collecting and aggregating data in the least burdensome way; and reporting meaningful information to consumers, physicians and other stakeholders to inform choices and improve outcomes."

The effort's goals are to reach consensus as soon as possible on:

• A set of measures for physician performance that stakeholders can use in private health insurance plan contracts and with government purchasers;
• A multi-year strategy to roll-out additional measurement sets and implement measures into the marketplace;
• A model (including framework and governing structure) for aggregating, sharing and stewarding data; and
• Critical steps needed for reporting useful information to providers, consumers and purchasers.

AQA's mission and goals focus on key areas that can help identify quality gaps, control skyrocketing cost trends, reduce confusion over redundant measures and alleviate administrative burdens in the marketplace.

Listed below are measures included in the Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance that have been submitted to NQMC and have met the NQMC Inclusion Criteria to date. Check back frequently for additional Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance measures that will be posted to the NQMC Web site.

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