PQA Prioritizes Health Plan Measure Concepts for Future Development

by: Noel Hunt, MPH
Category: Performance Measurement
Jan
08

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. 

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PQA Quality Leadership Program Expanded in 2025

by: Richard Schmitz
Category: Education
Dec
31

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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Five for Friday December 5: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

by: Melissa Castora-Binkley, PhD
Category: Five For Friday
Dec
05

Welcome to Five For Friday!

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Better Adherence Lowers Payer Medical Costs

by: Melissa Castora-Binkley, PhD
Category: Research
Nov
25

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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Five for Friday November 21: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

by: Richard Schmitz
Category: Five For Friday
Nov
21

Welcome to Five For Friday!

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Five for Friday November 7: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

by: Loren Kirk, PharmD, CAE, IOM
Category: Five For Friday
Nov
21

Welcome to Five For Friday!

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Five for Friday October 24: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

by: Noel Baham, MPH
Category: Five For Friday
Oct
24

Welcome to Five For Friday!

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Nominations Are Being Accepted for a New PQA Patient Advisory Council

by: Richard Schmitz
Category: General
Oct
21

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.  

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Community First: How Health Plans Are Rebuilding Trust and Driving Change Locally

by: Amit Patel, PharmD
Category: Guest Blog
Oct
20

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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Five for Friday October 10: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

by: Richard Schmitz
Category: Five For Friday
Oct
10

Welcome to Five For Friday!

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Five for Friday September 26: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

by: Carolyn Lockwood, RN, MSN
Category: Five For Friday
Sep
29

Welcome to Five For Friday!

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Five for Friday September 12: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

by: Chris Kotschevar, PharmD, CPHQ
Category: Five For Friday
Sep
12

Welcome to Five For Friday!

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Celebrating PQA in 2025!

by: Chris Kotschevar, PharmD, CPHQ
Category: General
Sep
10

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.

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Scholarship Opportunity for Students at PQA Member Organizations

by: Tammy Malm, PharmD, MPH, BCPS
Category: Education
Sep
08

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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Five for Friday August 29: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

by: Tammy Malm, PharmD, MPH, BCPS
Category: Five For Friday
Aug
29

Welcome to Five For Friday!

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PQA's Adherence Measure Risk Adjustment FAQs

by: Ben Shirley
Category: Performance Measurement
Aug
26

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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Five for Friday August 15: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

by: Loren Kirk, PharmD, CAE, IOM
Category: Five For Friday
Aug
15

Welcome to Five For Friday!

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Five for Friday August 1: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

by: Christa Hagelberger, CMP
Category: Five For Friday
Aug
01

Welcome to Five For Friday!

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Five for Friday July 18: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

by: Micah Cost, PharmD, MS, CAE
Category: Five For Friday
Jul
18

Welcome to Five For Friday!

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PQA Launches MCAG to Provide Input on Health Plan Measure Concepts

by: Richard Schmitz
Category: Performance Measurement
Jul
17

PQA has appointed 23 individuals to serve on a Measure Concept Advisory Group (MCAG) to help the organization to review and provide input on health plan measure concepts for future development. The group will provide guidance to prioritize areas of interest and potential measure concepts, evaluating key criteria such as: 

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