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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

State health reform efforts increasingly focus on providing comprehensive and well-coordinated care to people with serious illness to improve quality of care and drive down costs. Reach out to state professional and hospital associations. Use the state’s palliative care task force as a resource.

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Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

NASHP

iii] Also, those living in rural areas are more likely to experience a preventable hospitalization. [iv] Lack of Access to Specialists Associated with Mortality and Preventable Hospitalizations of Rural Medicare Beneficiaries.” In 2019, Colorado launched its alternative payment model (APM) for primary care providers.