{"id":3853,"date":"2018-07-25T13:43:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T17:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/?page_id=3853"},"modified":"2025-01-27T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:37:16","slug":"health-plans-how-to-choose-a-vendor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/programs\/data-and-information-technology\/hit-and-data-certification\/measure-certification\/health-plans-how-to-choose-a-vendor\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Plans: How to Choose A Vendor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Choosing the right vendor<\/h2>\n<p>Because health plans, other organizations, rely on quality measure reporting for decision making and for regulatory and contracting purposes, the reporting software they use for HEDIS<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, AMP and other quality measure reporting must be accurate. NCQA Measure Certification validates organizations that develop, license and sell HEDIS, AMP and other quality-measure reporting software that calculates measures using administrative data sources.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations that rely on data produced by NCQA-Certified software code can be confident that the code has gone through\u00a0<strong>the industry\u2019s most rigorous assessment<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>of whether they provide accurate data.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Find a certified vendor<\/h2>\n<p>NCQA maintains a directory of vendors that have earned measure certification.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.ncqa.org\/www-prod\/MY2025_MeasureCertification_VendorList.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find a vendor to work with today (.pdf)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Verify your code with automated source code review<\/h2>\n<p>Health plans and Provider Organizations (POs) <em>must<\/em> verify their own software code using NCQA\u2019s automated source code review (ASCR) process. 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