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Public Health Modernization Toolkit: Key Commitments, Priorities, and Strategies to Advance Collaboration between Public Health and Health Systems

NASHP

State leaders play a critical role in convening key internal and external partners, implementing engagement and input processes that foster shared ownership and accountability toward goals at the state and community levels.

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

States that use existing billing codes may want to provide guidance to providers and explain how to use these codes to better track uptake of these services and support best clinical practices. California provided an example of billing codes associated with specified palliative care services in its December 2017 guidance.

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State Strategies to Support OUD Treatment across the Criminal Legal System

NASHP

To me, it’s the difference between achieving a short-term public safety improvement by incapacitating this person, and achieving a durable, long-term solution to the public safety problem by holding the person accountable while giving them access to treatment.” Connect individuals to health care access prior to release.