PQA Launches MCAG to Provide Input on Health Plan Measure Concepts
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:
- evidence supporting the measure rationale,
- opportunity for implementation,
- feasibility,
- patient-centeredness, and
- resource-intensiveness of development.
This work will help shape PQA’s health plan quality measure development efforts and pipeline in 2026 and beyond.
The MCAG is composed of 20 individuals selected from PQA member organizations and three individuals representing patients, caregivers and patient advocates. The MCAG is representative of PQA’s multi-stakeholder membership, and group members were selected to participate based on their clinical, measurement and implementation expertise or lived experience that is applicable to the concepts that will be considered.
The MCAG will meet three times between July and September. Following the group’s deliberations, PQA will provide a public comment period on health plan measure concepts that may be developed in the future.
Measure conceptualization and prioritization are critical early steps in the measure life cycle. They help ensure that PQA devotes resources to developing measures that are high-impact and address areas of need. Visit the PQA Measure Development page to learn more about developing measures that matter.
The MCAG group members are:
- Anita Aderinkomi, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
- Reginald Barnes, Autoimmune Registry (representing patients and patient advocates)
- Sarah Billups, University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Laura Fortuna, HealthPartners Pharmacy Services
- Ross Frei, Outcomes
- Marti Groeneweg, Kaiser Permanente
- Erik Groves, Walgreens
- Kaitlin Hawkins, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Libby Hoy, Patient and Family Centered Care (representing patients and caregivers)
- Roshan Hussain, OnBelay Health Solutions
- Grace Jung, MedWatchers
- Brett Kay, Johnson & Johnson
- Amanda Lee, Navitus Health Solutions, LLC
- Kevin Lu, Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center
- Cavan O'Reilly, Humana, Inc.
- Sweta Patel, CVS Health
- Charles Rice (representing patients and patient advocates)
- Katherine Shanahan, Merative
- Christie Teigland, Inovalon
- Darren Triller, Anticoagulation Forum
- Shaquina Danielle White, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield
- Tsu-Hsuan Yang, Merck & Co., Inc.
- Morgan Youngblood, RxAnte