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Improving Oral Health Access through Managed Care Quality Initiatives in Pennsylvania

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As highlighted in a 2020 Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services informational bulletin , Pennsylvania Medicaid has improved oral health access and quality of care by requiring MCOs to hire a dental director and execute performance improvement projects (PIPs) for pediatric preventative dental care. CMS 416 preventative services.

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State Approaches to Behavioral Health Measures in Medicaid Managed Care

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Notably, all of the measures in Table 1 are Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures or included in at least one of the CMS core measure sets. Further, there is great consistency among the 10 most frequently collected measures and the 10 measures that are most frequently used in payment (Table 1).