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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. Additional measures can help states track the quality of care being delivered, and its impact on members receiving the service.

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

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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. A recent Health Affairs article reviewed opportunities to incorporate a palliative care benefit into ACOs.