Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) seek to provide safe, effective, efficient, patient-centered, high quality and equitable care to all enrollees. To achieve these goals, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) partners with states to share best practices and to provide technical assistance to improve the quality of care.
Quality Initiatives
CMS has initiatives to improve the quality of care provided to Medicaid and CHIP enrollees in the following areas:
| EPSDT Dental Care Obesity Maternal & Child Health Home and Community-Based Services Vaccines | Performance Measurement Health Disparities Patient Safety External Quality Review |
2nd Annual CMS National Medicaid/CHIP Quality Conference: Improving Care and Proving It!
Baltimore, Maryland -- June 14-15, 2012
The second annual CMS Medicaid/CHIP Quality Conference: Improving Care and Proving It! will be held on June 14-15, 2012 at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, MD. The Conference will include breakout sessions on data collection and use, children's health care quality measurement, as well as preventive and oral health. The Conference will also highlight CMS priority initiatives and include State technical assistance and resources for Medicaid and CHIP quality measurement.
Please visit the following link to register for the Conference and for information about discounted hotel rates: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22FLRW26Y5U. Conference registration will close on Friday, May 25, 2012.
National Quality Strategy
The National Quality Strategy, required by The Affordable Care Act of 2010, is a national plan to improve the delivery of health care services, patient health outcomes, and population health.
Three goals are used to guide and assess local, state, and national efforts to improve health and the health care delivery system:
- Better Care
- Healthy People/Healthy Communities
- Affordable Care
See the National Quality Strategy March 2011 Report to Congress.
Recent Reports to Congress
Preventive and Obesity-Related Services Available to Medicaid Enrollees
Improving Children's Health Care Quality in Medicaid and CHIP
2011 Annual Report on the Quality of Care for Children in Medicaid and CHIP
Appendices to the 2011 Annual Report on the Quality of Care for Children in Medicaid and CHIP