CMS launches Medicaid, CHIP scorecard

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week launched its first scorecard on individual state health system performance in the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (Source: “CMS releases scorecard to promote transparency within Medicaid and CHIP program,” Healthcare Finance, June 8, 2018).

The Medicaid and CHIP scorecard rates how well states provide a wide variety of health services to children and adults. The scorecard also shows the timeliness of state and federal approvals for managed care capitation rate reviews, demonstration waivers and state plan amendments.

"Despite providing health coverage to more than 75 million Americans at a taxpayer cost of more than $558 billion a year, we have lacked transparency in the performance and outcomes of this critical program," said CMS Administrator Seema Verma. "The scorecard will be used to track and display progress being made throughout and across the Medicaid and CHIP programs, so others can learn from the successes of high performing states."