“Between 2013 and 2016, Federal spending on Medicaid grew by over $100 billion. The program is often the first or second largest line item in state budgets. Just recently, CMS’ independent Office of the Actuary released their Medicaid financial report, confirming what we have already known for quite some time – that our healthcare spending, particularly in Medicaid – is forecast to continue growing, averaging 5.7% annually over the next 10 years to reach over $1 trillion by 2026.”
“Yet as program costs have continued to rise, we have failed to deliver a level of transparency and accountability for achieving positive outcomes commiserate with our significant investment. But this is finally beginning to change…”
“As one example, CMS has worked with stakeholders to identify two core sets of health care quality measures that can be used to assess the quality of health care provided to children and adults enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP. These core sets are tools…”
“Last week, we released the latest Federal Fiscal Year 2017 quality measurement data from the Medicaid and CHIP Child and Adult Core Sets that states have voluntarily reported to CMS…”
“With these data in hand, we are shifting our efforts to continuous data quality review and improvement–a collaboration we will sustain with states. CMS’ ongoing goal is to use advanced analytics and other innovative solutions to both improve T-MSIS data and maximize its potential for performance measurement, health care quality improvement, and program integrity…” Read the full post here.
Source: Better Data Will Serve as the Foundation in Modernizing the Medicaid Program – By Seema Verma, October 2, 2018. CMS.gov.
