Keeping Tabs On The Current Performance For Child Mental Health

What is good performance for organizations providing mental health services for children? Benchmarks are hard to find and performance measures few and far between.

To try to answer this question, our team pulled the recently released data from the Medicaid Behavioral Health Core Set for children. This is a set of measures that state Medicaid agencies voluntarily report now – though they will be mandatory in 2024. As its name suggests, the child core measure set consists of 26 measures specifically designed for children in the domains of primary care access and preventive care, maternal and perinatal health, behavioral health, care . . .