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

NASHP

Strengthening Care for People with Serious Illness Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid. People with complex or life-threatening conditions often need extra support to manage symptoms and make critical decisions about their care and quality of life. March 14, 2022.

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Getting To Know Laura Tortorella, The Next CEO Of AccentCare

Home Health Care

According to her LinkedIn, the roles she held at Steward Health Care include: COO; EVP of operations; SVP of corporate operations; SVP and chief of staff; VP of operations and strategic initiatives, senior director of primary care and medical specialties; and director of practice operations.

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VCU Health Brings Hospital-At-Home Program To Central Virginia

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VCU Health at Home’s service lines includes home-based primary care, primary and specialty telehealth appointments, remote patient monitoring as well as skilled home health and hospice care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care At Home waiver program. “We

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How States Can Embed Palliative Care in Health Care Reform Initiatives

NASHP

Palliative care can be an important component of these strategies. Palliative care is an interdisciplinary service addressing the symptoms and stresses of serious illness. Unlike hospice care, palliative care can benefit people with serious illness prior to end-of-life and is provided concurrently with curative treatment.

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Contessa Health CEO: Managed Care Strategy Will Separate the ‘Haves and the Have Nots’

Home Health Care

That’s especially true for health plans and health systems following the introduction of the COVID-related Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in November 2020. We all know that there are a lot of problems in health care related to the fragmentation of home care services.

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

There are a number of strategies state health officials can use as they build sustainable access to palliative care services in their Medicaid programs. Target Populations That Could Benefit from Palliative Care Services Use data to identify Medicaid enrollees with serious illness.

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2022 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures

Briggs Healthcare

A Special Report examines consumers’ and primary care physicians’ perspectives on awareness, diagnosis and treatment of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), including MCI due to Alzheimer’s disease. This dramatic rise includes three-fold increases both in government spending under Medicare and Medicaid and in out-of-pocket spending.

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