Five for Friday January 16: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality
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PQA has appointed individuals from member organizations to serve on the 2026 PQA Measure Update Panel (MUP) and Quality Metrics Expert Panel (QMEP).
Early in the measure life cycle, PQA solicits multi-stakeholder input to evaluate and prioritize health plan measure concepts for future development. To support measure conceptualization in 2025, PQA convened a Measure Concept Advisory Group (MCAG) and conducted a public comment period to inform future measure development, with a particular focus on addressing meaningful gaps in medication use quality while ensuring measure concepts are evidence-based and usable in real-world settings.
The PQA Quality Leadership Program expanded in 2025 to increase opportunities for all professionals at PQA member organizations and students to hone their skills in medication use quality and gain valuable knowledge about PQA’s measure development process and the measure life cycle.
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A research partnership between PQA, Merck, and the University of Mississippi focused on three PQA adherence measures to continue to monitor their impact.
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PQA, the Pharmacy Quality Alliance, will launch a new Patient Advisory Council in 2026. This council will advise PQA on what matters most to patients, their families and caregivers as it relates to safe, effective and appropriate medication use.
This guest blog is one in a series by sponsors of the 2025 PQA Leadership Summit on how health plans are rebuilding trust and driving change locally. PQA does not endorse, recommend or favor any product, service or organization that is a sponsor.
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PQA has published the 2025 PQA Annual Report, which documents progress towards our strategic plan, Blueprint PQA 2025, from September 2024 to August 2025. Alongside our members and stakeholders, our team continues to advance a series of important, enduring and mutually supporting goals. Together, we are innovating and expanding capacity to enable quality medication use in a digital, value-based health system.
PQA has a new scholarship opportunity for students at PQA member organizations to take free of charge the PQA Medication Use Quality online training program. This program provides 15 hours of education on the fundamentals of quality measurement and helps individuals master today’s quality landscape.
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Health outcomes can be influenced by many factors other than the health care services received, including patient-related characteristics that are both clinical (i.e., pre-existing conditions) and non-clinical (e.g., income, education, age, race or ethnicity). Careful evaluation of risk adjustment is an important consideration to ensure that organizations that care for disadvantaged populations are measured fairly.
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