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The purpose of this technical assistance brief is to assist States in aggregating separate rates for the initial core set of children’s health care quality measures across multiple reporting units to produce a single State-level rate that represents the quality of children’s health care regardless of the program in which they are enrolled, the system used to pay for their care, or the health plans or providers that serve them. Separate rates may be calculated by program (Medicaid or CHIP); payment system (for example, fee-for-service [FFS], primary care case management [PCCM], or managed care [MC]); health plan; or provider. This brief also discusses how aggregated rates should be reported in the CHIP Annual Reporting Template System (CARTS), potential cautions about calculating and interpreting aggregated rates to measure children’s health care quality, and sources of further information.