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

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licensed hospice providers), with quality assurance provisions and any licensing updates necessary to ensure team competencies for non-hospice care. States can also elect to identify and limit billing to specific types of providers/settings (e.g.,

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

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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.