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
Resources on Strategies to Improve Postpartum Care Among Medicaid and CHIP Populations
Fact Sheet or TA Briefs -
Provides strategies that may be effective in increasing the postpartum care visit rate and improving the content of the visit among states’ Medicaid and CHIP populations.The information presented in this resource reflects materials gathered from the peer-reviewed literature; reports from state Medicaid programs and Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs); and materials for providers and patients produced by health plans, MCOs, and other organizations.
Search Terms
Maternal and Perinatal Health, Postpartum Care
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