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State Community Health Worker Models

NASHP

The information on this map comes from a 50-state survey of a variety of stakeholders, ranging from Medicaid officials to Community Health Workers, on their states’ approaches?to?integrating?CHWs integrating?CHWs ACO Accountable Care Organizations. MCO Managed Care Organizations. MCE Managed Care Entities.

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Emerging Respite Care Strategies in Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Waivers for Older Adults, Adults with Physical Disabilities, and their Family Caregivers

NASHP

With caregivers increasingly asked to perform more intense and complex care , respite care is integral to giving caregivers a much-needed break. Respite care is a service typically delivered in the home or a facility-based setting that provides short-term relief for caregivers.

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Community Health Worker Models

NASHP

This map highlights state activity to integrate CHWs into evolving health care systems in key areas such as financing, education and training, certification, and state definitions, roles and scope of practice. Medicaid Reimbursement. Medicaid Reimbursement.

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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

NASHP

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community.

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How PACE Could Cover More Older Adults

Home Health Care

Beyond geographic PACE expansion, the National PACE Association also sees a future where the model evolves to reach a larger demographic of seniors, including those that fall outside of the category of Medicaid-eligible. Traditionally, PACE cares for dual-eligible seniors in a given community. “We We refer to them as Medicare-only.

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The Direct Care Workforce

NASHP

State Medicaid-funded long-term services and supports (LTSS) systems are not well-positioned to compete for this shrinking pool of workers. The shortage of direct care workers undermines a state’s ability to serve people with disabilities in the most integrated setting appropriate to a person’s needs and preferences.

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Consumer Direct CEO: Self-Directed Care Will Grow, Criticism Lacks Evidence

Home Health Care

However, Consumer Direct maintains its status as one of the largest self-directed personal home care companies in the country. Bledsoe spoke to HHCN in December about his rise at Consumer Direct, the misconceptions and value of self-directed care and what other goals he and the company have for the next few years.