Strengthening the Core Set of Healthcare Quality Measures for Adults Enrolled in Medicaid, 2017 

This final report is the Measure Applications Partnership’s (MAP’s) fifth set of annual recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for strengthening the Core Set of Healthcare Quality Measures for Adults Enrolled in Medicaid (Adult Core Set). MAP supported the continued use of all but two of the 30 measures in the Adult Core Set and recommended four new measures for phased addition to help improve quality in high-priority areas such as reproductive health, care for people with asthma, and substance use. To inform future revisions to the Adult Core Set, MAP prioritized gap areas that lack adequate metrics for measuring improvement, discussed continued challenges states face in reporting measures, and suggested strategies to improve the Adult Core Set measures.