What is the application review process and who are the reviewers?
A peer-review process is used to review and score applications. Reviewers are identified from the Quality Alliance Steering Committee membership and supplemented as needed to make three to four six-member review teams. Reviewers are assigned to teams so that each team is comprised of one purchaser representative, one health plan representative, one provider representative, one consumer advocacy organization representative, one non-AHRQ Federal employee, and one person with expertise in community coalition building. Each team is supplemented as needed to include quality improvement organization and health information exchange expertise. Conflicts of interest are minimized through application assignment to specific teams. Reviewers individually score their assigned applications and then discuss each assigned application via a conference call. During that call, the team’s final average scores for each application are determined and submitted to AHRQ. Results for all applicants are present
