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

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High-quality palliative care can both improve quality of life and avoid unnecessary and often unwanted treatments for Medicaid enrollees with serious illness. in hospitals, embedded within enhanced primary care, via home health). Other rehabilitative services and supports (e.g., Recent data show that only 5.6% Pharmacist.

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National Care Coordination Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) Implementation Guide

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Building consensus among stakeholders on key care coordination metrics to track and addressing technology barriers to collecting this data can support system-wide care coordination quality measurement. hospital admission). Boston Children’s Hospital. 46] Johnson K, Willis D, Doyle S.