CMS Releases the 2023-34 Core Set of Health Care Quality Measures

kow5101 December 5, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released an Informational Bulletin that describes the 2023 and 2024 updates to the Core Set of children’s healthcare quality measures for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Core Set of health care quality measures for adults enrolled in Medicaid (the Adult Core Set). The updates to the Core Sets will take effect in the 2023 reporting cycle, which will begin in the early fall of 2023.

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