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Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid

NASHP

High-quality palliative care can both improve quality of life and avoid unnecessary and often unwanted treatments for Medicaid enrollees with serious illness. States can support palliative care in a number of ways and across a range of settings (e.g., in hospitals, embedded within enhanced primary care, via home health).

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

It is increasingly clear that any program’s ability to improve care value is critically reliant on targeting the right patients — not too many, not too few, but the right ones.” — Diane E. The state began implementation of palliative care legislation with an analysis of state Medicaid claims and encounter data.