AHRQ NAC Subcommittee on Children's Healthcare Quality Measures for Medicaid and CHIP Programs

Scope for Core Measurement Set

1. Must be realistic about staffing/funding needs for collecting/analyzing/reporting available data.
2. Comprehensive effort to find good measures for all service categories, duration of enrollment, and other aspects of care required by the legislation; however, if no good measures currently exist for a given aspect of care, a measure will not be recommended for the core set.
3. Include measures not currently used by Medicaid/CHIP.
   • e.g., State and national measurement efforts.
4. Choose measures that are actionable.
   • There should be clear steps a State, plan, or provider can take to improve on performance—the measure should inform what these steps need to be.