; (ix) the legal barriers preventing the collation of State maternity care data; (x) the effectiveness of data collection and reporting processes in separating pregnancy-associated deaths from pregnancy-related deaths; and (xi) the current Federal, State, local, and Tribal funding support for the activities referred to in clauses (i) through (x). (B) An assessment of whether the funding referred to in subparagraph (A)(xi) is adequate for States to carry out optimal data collection and dissemination processes with respect to maternal health, maternal mortality, and severe maternal morbidity. (C) An evaluation of current quality measures for maternity care, including prenatal measures, labor and delivery measures, and postpartum measures up to one year post­par­tum. Such evaluation shall be conducted in consultation with the National Quality Forum and shall include consideration of— (i) effective quality measures for maternity care used by hospitals, health systems, birth centers, health plans, and other relevant entities; (ii) the sufficiency of current outcome measures used to evaluate maternity care for testing and validating new maternal health care payment and service delivery models; (iii) quality measures for the childbirth experiences of women that other countries effectively use; (iv) current maternity care quality measures that may be eliminated because they are not achieving their intended effect; (v) barriers preventing maternity care providers from implementing quality measures that are aligned from best practices; (vi) the frequency with which maternity care quality measures are reviewed and revised; (vii) the strengths and weaknesses of the Prenatal and Postpartum Care measures of the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set measures established by the National Committee for Quality Assurance