Child Healthcare Quality Measures [CHIPRA]

Child Healthcare Quality Measures - Open for Public Comment
CHIPRA - Public Comments Due March 1, 2010

Initial Core Set of Child Healthcare Quality Measures for Medicaid and CHIP Programs

As required by The Child Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (Public Law 111-3), an Initial Core Set of Child Healthcare Quality Measures for Medicaid and CHIP (and their providers and patients) has been posted for public comment at:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2009-12-29/html/E9-30802.htm

Note also the detailed background paper accompanying the Federal Register Notice at: http://www.ahrq.gov/chip/corebackgrnd.htm

Comments are due no later than March 1, 2010.

You can also find the Federal Register Notice and the background paper, as well as updates on other CHIPRA-related activities, on the AHRQ Web site at: http://www.ahrq.gov/chip/chipraact.htm


Comments should be submitted to the e-mail address: CHIPRAqualitymeasures@ahrq.hhs.gov
Or sent by postal mail to:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Attention:
Office of Extramural Research, Education, and Priority Populations Public Comment, CHIPRA Core Measures
540 Gaither RoadRockville, MD 20850