Strengthening the Core Set of Healthcare Quality Measures for Adults Enrolled in Medicaid, 2014 

This final report contains MAP’s recommendations to HHS for strengthening and revising measures in the Core Set of Healthcare Quality Measures for Adults Enrolled in Medicaid (Adult Core Set). To conduct this review, MAP applied its standard measure selection criteria and considered states’ feedback from the first year of implementation to carefully evaluate and identify opportunities to improve the Adult Core Set. MAP supports the continued use of 22 measures, conditionally supports the continued use of 3 measures, and suggests the removal of 1 measure. MAP also recommends three measures for phased addition. The program measure set will continue to evolve in response to changing federal, state, and stakeholder needs and its maintenance should be considered a long-term strategic process.