Under President Obama’s healthcare reform law, HHS was required to set forth quality measures for Medicaid patients by Jan. 1. HHS must also consequently develop a standardized reporting format and procedures to encourage voluntary reporting by state Medicaid programs by Jan. 2013. In addition to making appropriate changes to the quality measures on a yearly basis, HHS must collect, analyze and make publicly available the information reported by the participating states by Sept. 30, 2014.
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Some of the quality measures are already being used by other federal or public-sector reporting programs, such as the Medicare Physician Quality Reporting System and the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive programs.
To view a full list of the 26 Medicaid quality measures, click here (pdf).
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