Every patient encounter, every quality score, and every care decision depends on one thing: the accuracy of the data behind it. That’s why KONZA Health is launching Cohort 10 of the NCQA Data Aggregator Validation (DAV) program — a national certification that confirms whether clinical data is complete, trustworthy, and ready to use for quality reporting.

This round of validation is different. We’re revalidating hundreds of sites we’ve certified in the past, ensuring they still meet NCQA’s gold standard. We’re also validating FHIR-based data for the first time — supporting more modern, flexible data exchange. With more than 450 sites certified to date, KONZA continues to lead the country in delivering data you can rely on.

Below, we break down what DAV is, why it matters to providers and payers, and what steps you can take to stay aligned.

 Why It Matters: Elevating Data Standards Across the Network

When health data is clean, complete, and consistent, everyone wins:

• Safer care for patients: When lab results and allergies are coded accurately, clinicians can make better decisions. In past audits, KONZA flagged and corrected coding mismatches that could have affected patient safety.
• Less burden for providers: Manual chart pulls, audits, and data clean-up cost time and staff energy. DAV certification eliminates much of this by validating data directly at the source.
• Smarter quality reporting for payers: With a centralized stream of validated, NCQA-certified supplemental data, health plans can improve HEDIS performance while reducing duplicate outreach to provider groups.

In short: DAV helps ensure that the right data gets to the right place at the right time — and that everyone can trust it once it’s there.

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The Largest Validated Data Stream in the Country

Since 2021, KONZA Health has been at the forefront of NCQA’s DAV program. Today, we support the largest certified validated data stream in the country, with:

• 452 DAV-Certified ingestion sites and care settings across 9 prior cohorts
• 396 sites participating in Cohort 10 — including 113 submitting FHIR data alongside traditional CCDs
• Major EHRs in scope for FHIR: Epic and Cerner

By adopting a 24-month revalidation cycle, we’re holding ourselves accountable for long-term data accuracy — not just point-in-time compliance.

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Behind the Scenes: What the DAV Audit Looks Like

In addition to reviewing the clinical data itself, NCQA also audits our infrastructure and processes using what’s called the Validation Assessment Tool (VAT). This covers everything from:

• How we assess ingestion sites
• How we secure and store data
• How we code, transform, and map information
• How we track and improve data quality over time

We’re proud to report that KONZA passed its most recent VAT review. Even better: we’ve proactively addressed every opportunity for improvement ahead of this new cohort launch.

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What You Can Do

To keep DAV running smoothly, we ask current participants to:

• Let us know about any EHR or system changes that might affect your data feeds
• Keep site contacts up to date so we can schedule data reviews and resolve questions quickly
• Work with our team to confirm mappings and submit PSV documentation when requested

Active collaboration helps us deliver clean, complete, and ready-to-use data — without the administrative burden.

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If you’re interested in learning more about the DAV program or preparing your organization for a future cohort, contact your KONZA Health representative or email us at information@konza.org.

Together, we’re raising the bar for health data — and creating a future where information flows more safely, more reliably, and more meaningfully across care settings.