The National Quality Forum (NQF) continues its efforts to improve healthcare for the more than 74 million adults and children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) by recommending standardized measures to evaluate quality of care across states. The NQF Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) issued its recommendations on Medicaid’s core measures in a series of three new reports. NQF also for the first time provided measure recommendations specifically for four high-cost, high-need areas of care for the Medicaid population. These recommendations, issued in a fourth NQF report, aim to support federal efforts to help states tie payments—which totaled $553 billion in 2016—to improved value.
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