NCQA’s flexible Disease Management (DM) evaluation programs include accreditation for organizations that offer comprehensive DM programs with services to patients, practitioners or both, and certification for organizations that provide specific DM functions. The program standards are built on NCQA’s years of experience, detailed market research and input from health care industry experts and other stakeholders. Moreover, NCQA is the first DM accreditation organization to utilize performance measures to assess the impact of programs on care for people with asthma, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failure and ischemic vascular disease (IVD).