What is HEDIS?

HEDIS is a set of standardized performance measures designed to ensure that purchasers and consumers have the information they need to reliably compare the performance of managed health care plans. The performance measures in HEDIS are related to many significant public health issues such as cancer, heart disease, smoking, asthma and diabetes. HEDIS also includes a standardized survey of consumers' experiences that evaluates plan performance in areas such as customer service, access to care and claims processing. HEDIS is sponsored, supported and maintained by NCQA.

a rigorous and expert evaluation of how managed care plans are organized and how they operate), in combination with HEDIS data provides the most complete view of health plan quality available to guide choice among competing health plans. HEDIS provides purchasers and consumers with an unprecedented ability both to evaluate the quality of different health plans along a variety of important dimensions, and to make their plan decisions based upon demonstrated value rather than simply on cost.