2025 Child and Adult Core Set Data
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Summary
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released new 2025 Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Child and Adult Core Set data and products, as well as new external quality review summary tables with performance-related information about states’ Medicaid and CHIP managed care programs for 2025-2026.
The Child and Adult Core Sets of health care quality measures represent the quality of care delivered to millions of people enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP. CMS publicly releases data on measures that are reported by at least 25 states and that meet data quality standards. This release represents the most robust year of Medicaid and CHIP quality measure reporting to date: all 26 of Child Core Set measures and 34 of 38 Adult Core Set measures.
The Core Set data products posted include:
• Core Set Data Dashboard
• 2025 Core Set Fact Sheet
• Trendability Methods Brief
• Trending Analysis of State Performance of Child and Adult Core Sets, 2023-2025
• 2025 Core Set Dataset
The Child and Adult Core Sets of health care quality measures represent the quality of care delivered to millions of people enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP. CMS publicly releases data on measures that are reported by at least 25 states and that meet data quality standards. This release represents the most robust year of Medicaid and CHIP quality measure reporting to date: all 26 of Child Core Set measures and 34 of 38 Adult Core Set measures.
The Core Set data products posted include:
• Core Set Data Dashboard
• 2025 Core Set Fact Sheet
• Trendability Methods Brief
• Trending Analysis of State Performance of Child and Adult Core Sets, 2023-2025
• 2025 Core Set Dataset