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The following measures have been identified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or CMS (not DHCS) as the Initial Adult Core Measures. Each measure that is defined by the National Quality Forum or NQF (not DHCS) has a number which is shown below. The numbers are linked to the measures on the NQF website. The Measure Steward refers to the organization that is responsible for providing the required measure information for the measure maintenance process that occurs approximately every three years and is responsible for making the necessary updates to the measure and for informing NQF about any changes that are made to the measure on an annual basis. Each candidate measure or set of measures will have a measure steward who will assume responsibility for the submission of the measure for potential endorsement of NQF.

Measure Stewards included below are outside of the Department of Health Care Services:  

• National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC)
• Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI)
• American Medical Association – Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement® (AMA-PCPI) 

For each measure, we have identified the programs within DHCS that use and report that measure. The program that currently use or plan to use the measures include the Managed Care Plans (MCPs) and Healthy Families.

CMS Initial Core Set of Health Care Quality Measures for Children in Medicaid and CHIP

NQF #	Measure Steward	Measure Name	California Reports
1517	NCQA	Prenatal and Postpartum Care: Timeliness of Prenatal Care	MCP
1391	NCQA	Frequency of Ongoing Prenatal Care
1382	CDC	Percentage of Live Births Weighing less than 2,500 Grams
0471	California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative	Cesarean Rate for Nulliparous Singleton Vertex
0038	NCQA	Childhood Immunization Status	MCP, Healthy Families
1407	NCQA	Immunizations for Adolescents	MCP
0024	NCQA	Weight Assessment and Counseling for Nutrition and Physical Activity for Children/Adolescents: Body Mass Index Assessment for Children/Adolescents	MCP
1448	CAHMI and NCQA	Developmental Screening in the First Three Years of Life
0033	NCQA	Chlamydia Screening in Women	Healthy Families
1392	NCQA	Well-Child Visits in the First 15 Months of Life	Healthy Families
1516	NCQA	Well-Child Visits in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Years of Life	MCP, Healthy Families
NA	NCQA	Adolescent Well-Care Visit	Healthy Families
NA	CMS	Total Eligibles Who Received Preventive Dental Services (ages 1-20)
NA	NCQA	Child and Adolescent Access to Primary Care Practitioners	MCP, Healthy Families
0002	NCQA	Appropriate Testing for Children with Pharyngitis
0657	AMA-PCPI	Otitis Media with Effusion (OME)–Avoidance of Inappropriate Use of Systemic Antimicrobials
NA	CMS	Total Eligibles Who Received Dental Treatment Services (ages 1-20)
NA	NCQA	Ambulatory Care: Emergency Department Visits
0139	CDC	Pediatric Central-line Associated Bloodstream Infections–Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
1381	Alabama Medicaid	Annual Percentage of Asthma Patients with One or More Asthma-related Emergency Room Visits (ages 2-20)
0108	NCQA	Follow-Up Care for Children Prescribed Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Medication
0060	NCQA	Annual Pediatric Hemoglobin A1C Testing
0576	NCQA	Follow-up After Hospitalization for Mental Illness
NA	NCQA	CAHPS® 4.0H (child version including Medicaid and children with chronic conditions supplemental items)