Fifty Years of Medicaid

A key element of health reform is to change the way we pay for care. Paying for value, not volume, emphasizes the importance of achieving positive health outcomes over the number of physician visits or hospital stays. Ensuring that beneficiaries receive high quality care, have a positive experience...

Delivering high quality health care to every beneficiary is central to the mission of the Medicaid and CHIP. To help develop a system that assures quality, federal and state government partners are working together to measure and monitor specific quality of care indicators. Two core sets of...