CMS and AHRQ Partnership Overview

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Strategy for CHIPRA Quality Program

By 2013:

Establish a Pediatrics Measures Program assimilating information learned from CHIPRA Demonstrations and Report to Congress starting in 2011:

• Quality Measures.
• Electronic Health Records and Health Information Technology (IT).
• Best Practices.
• Annual State Reporting on Quality.
• Assessment of Provider Models.
• Options for Performance-Based Payment.