Comments on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Adult and Children’s Health Care Quality Reports to Congress

The Commission offers comments on HHS’s efforts to improve the quality of care in Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in the following areas:

• strengthening the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) capacity to calculate quality measures for states;

• expanding the use of core quality measures in state quality improvement efforts;

• improving quality measures for individuals with disabilities; and

• continuing funding for the adult and child quality measures programs.