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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. California provided an example of billing codes associated with specified palliative care services in its December 2017 guidance.

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Virginia Advances Maternal Health Equity Policy

NASHP

State policy recommendations include: Investing in a doula Medicaid benefit, Requiring provider cultural humility trainings, Ensuring health systems are connected to community programs, Mandating maternal mortality specific education for primary care providers, Investing in home community health workers and home visiting services, and.

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

NASHP

Interviewees shared a range of perspectives, including those of local health departments, the state’s sheriff’s association, the state medical society, community health centers, hospital and primary care associations, funders, a CBO, aging and assisted living partners, consumer advocacy groups, and legislators.