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

This report is the Measure Applications Partnership’s (MAP) fourth 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 Children Enrolled in Medicaid/CHIP (Child Core Set). MAP supported the continued use of all but five of the current measures in the Child Core Set, and recommended the phased addition of five measures to assess and improve access to care, behavioral health, and care for people with asthma. To inform future revisions to the Child Core Set, MAP prioritized previously identified gap areas that lack adequate metrics for measuring improvement and emphasized the need for better alignment of measures, data integration and linkage, and stratification. MAP also noted the need for measures that capture and address long-term outcomes and provide actionable information for quality improvement.