This toolkit offers a structured approach for addressing quality improvement for preventive care services and a collection of "lessons learned" by a diverse group of health plans serving Medicaid members. It offers realistic approaches to help health plans develop or improve preventive care programs.

This tool addresses the following topics:

• How will this toolkit benefit your health plan?
• Measuring for success: A process improvement strategy
• A typology for improvement
• Identification and stratification
• Outreach
• Intervention
• Helping providers improve preventive services for children
• Communicate to create change

The appendixes to this report include a variety of administrative materials developed by various health plans.