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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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Contraception in Medicaid: Improving Maternal and Infant Health Questions and Answers
Fact Sheet or TA Briefs - Describes emerging payment approaches available to state Medicaid agencies to optimize access to contraception methods and use of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC).
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Maternal and Perinatal Health, Contraceptive Care
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.
 
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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.
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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. 
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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)
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Tobacco Use Treatment
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