Moving Forward with Quality: State and Federal Approaches to Measure, Manage and Improve Quality in the Medicaid Program
December 2007
Authors: Lisa Simpson, Gerry Fairbrother, and Joe Schuchter
As a mainstay of health coverage in the United States and one of the nation’s major health purchasers, Medicaid has an important role to play in moving health care quality efforts forward and improving quality for the populations it serves, especially children. This issue brief provides recommendations at the state and federal levels to improve quality in Medicaid.
Download report (PDF)This issue brief was released as part of CCF’s Strengthening Medicaid project, which develops fresh ideas to strengthen the Medicaid program and to engage policymakers and stakeholders at the state and federal levels in discussion about how these ideas might be translated into policies.