Medicaid and CHIP Quality Resource Library
The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) partners with states to share best practices and provide technical assistance to improve the quality of care for our beneficiaries. Type in a key search term to see what resources are available, or use the filters below to search and browse our quality improvement resources by Medicaid and CHIP Core Set domain and other fields.
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Reducing Early Childhood Tooth Decay: An Overview for State Policymakers
Issue Brief -
Presents a summary of the problem of early childhood caries (ECC) and a list of program, payment, and policy strategies that states can take to combat the problem. The issue brief highlights that untreated ECC disproportionately affects children from low-income households.
Search Terms
Dental and Oral Health Services
Linking Children with Special Healthcare Needs to Dental Providers – February 18, 2015
Webinar -
Discusses challenges children with special healthcare needs face in accessing dentists; role of the dentist locator in connecting kids to care; new CMS guidelines; strategies for collecting high quality data; and resources for families.
Search Terms
Dental and Oral Health Services, Behavioral Health
Medicaid Oral Health Performance Improvement Projects: A How-To-Manual for Health Plans
Issue Brief -
Presents a summary and list of recommendations on reducing early childhood tooth decay at the state level. The issue brief focuses on early childhood caries (ECC). ECC is one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood in the United States, affecting about 23 percent of the nation’s 2- to 5-year-olds, and disproportionately impacting children from lower-income homes and of Mexican origin and black non-Hispanic children.
Search Terms
Dental and Oral Health Services
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE WITH SMOKING AND TOBACCO CESSATION: FINDINGS FROM A NATIONWIDE SURVEY OF ADULT MEDICAID BENEFICIARIES, 2014-2015
Data and Statistics, Issue Brief -
Illustrates findings from the 2014-2015 Nationwide Adult Medicaid Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey. The infographic focuses on the percentage of adult Medicaid beneficiaries reporting tobacco use and the percentage of users that reported being advice by their doctor or another health provider to quit. Medical Assistance With Smoking and Tobacco Use Cessation (MSC-AD)
Search Terms
Tobacco Use Treatment
2015 Domain-Specific Reports
Data and Statistics, Quality Measure Guidance -
Contains a downloadable file of a series of domain-specific reports about the quality of health care delivered to children and adults enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Antidepressant Medication Management (AMM-AD), Follow-Up Care for Children Prescribed Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Medication (ADD-CH), Follow-Up After Hospitalization for Mental Illness: Ages 6–17 (FUH-CH), Follow-Up After Hospitalization for Mental Illness: Age 18 and Older (FUH-AD), Ambulatory Care: Emergency Department (ED) Visits (AMB-CH), Percentage of Eligibles Who Received Preventive Dental Services (PDENT-CH), Live Births Weighing Less Than 2,500 Grams (LBW-CH), Prenatal and Postpartum Care: Timeliness of Prenatal Care (PPC-CH), Prenatal and Postpartum Care: Postpartum Care (PPC-AD), Weight Assessment and Counseling for Nutrition and Physical Activity for Children/Adolescents (WCC-CH), Chlamydia Screening in Women Ages 16–20 (CHL-CH), Childhood Immunization Status (CIS-CH), Well-Child Visits in the First 15 Months of Life (W15-CH), Immunizations for Adolescents (IMA-CH), Well-Child Visits in the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Years of Life (W34-CH), Adolescent Well-Care Visits (AWC-CH), Cervical Cancer Screening (CCS-AD), Chlamydia Screening in Women Ages 21–24 (CHL-AD), Breast Cancer Screening (BCS-AD), Adult Body Mass Index Assessment (ABA-AD)
Search Terms
Maternal and Perinatal Health, Prenatal Care, Primary Care Access and Preventative Care, Well-Child Visits, Dental and Oral Health Services, Behavioral Health, Antipsychotic Drugs, Medication Management, Care of Acute and Chronic Conditions, Ambulatory Care
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