Assessing a Plan’s Efforts to Address Health Inequities: The Role of NCQA’s Multicultural Healthcare Distinction Program

Although health equity has become a priority issue over the last year, employers struggle to know what steps can be taken to drive change and ensure equitable health care for their employees. On this webinar, NCQA will share details of their Multicultural Healthcare Distinction and how employers can leverage the program to identify plans prioritizing health equity. Employers will learn:

• The action steps required of plans to achieve the Multicultural Healthcare Distinction
• Current status of plans performance in this regard
• How one state purchaser is leveraging NCQA’s Multicultural Healthcare Distinction to demand attention to the issue and drive improvement
• The effectiveness of MHC in improving health disparities as measured by the public sector

Recorded March 18, 2021