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QUALITY OF CARE

The case for good quality preventive care for children is strong, especially for low-income young children. Responding to suggestions to use SCHIP to improve quality of care, majorities of respondents were in favor (strongly favor or favor) of all proposals:

• 84% favor allowing states to design packages that wrap around other coverage (ie: translation services and care coordination).
• 78% favor requiring states to reward managed care plans/providers that meet benchmark levels of performance on developmental screening, preventive care, and follow-up treatment.
• 69% favor measuring and reporting on the frequency and quality of developmental screening and growth and development counseling to parents in child health practices that cover SCHIP children.

METHODOLOGY:

The online survey was conducted within the United States by Harris Interactive between March 12, 2007 and April 6, 2007. The survey was delivered via e-mail to a panel of 1 ,467 opinion leaders in health policy and innovators in health care delivery and finance; 170 responded. The sample was derived from a panel developed by The Commonwealth Fund, Modern Healthcare and Harris Interactive. Data from this survey were not weighted. With a pure probability sample of 170, one could typically say with a ninety-five percent probability that the overall results would have a sampling error of +/-7.5 percentage points. However, that does not take other sources of error into account. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no theoretical sampling error can be calculated.