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Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the fourth annual update to its Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) (MAC) Scorecard. Using the most recently available data, CMS updated the 2021 MAC Scorecard’s content. CMS did not add new measures as part of this update.
CMS developed its MAC Scorecard initiative to increase greater public transparency about the Medicaid and CHIP programs’ administration and outcomes. The MAC Scorecard includes measures voluntarily reported by states, as well as federally reported measures in three areas: state health system performance; state administrative accountability; and federal administrative accountability.
CMS continues to engage stakeholders as part of every MAC Scorecard release, including receiving input from Medicaid agencies through a collaboration with the National Association of Medicaid Directors.
CMS is also releasing an updated “quality of care “section on the Medicaid.gov State Profiles. The Medicaid.gov State Profiles provide a view of key characteristics of Medicaid and CHIP in each state, including eligibility, enrollment, and the quality of care. The quality of care section of the State Profiles has been updated to reflect the most recent data available for Child and Adult Core Set measures and additional quality measures included in the MAC Scorecard.
To view the 2021 MAC Scorecard, please visit: https://www.medicaid.gov/state-overviews/scorecard/index.html
For more information pertaining to the 2021 MAC Scorecard, please visit: https://medicaid.gov/state-overviews/scorecard/downloads/2021-scorecard-fact-sheet.pdf
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