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

NASHP

Consider opportunities to build palliative care into value-based purchasing strategies to align with goals such as reduced hospitalization, rebalancing long term care, improving patient satisfaction, and promoting integrated, patient-driven care.

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AHRQ’s research agenda for tackling patients with multiple chronic conditions

Healthcare ECONOMIST

In the Bierman article, they aim to do this by answering the following questions as part of their research agenda: How can care become more patient centered for patients with MCC? This includes better approaches to measuring quality, better health IT, and integrating social, behavioral and economic factors into the care plan.

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

NASHP

This section of the guide outlines considerations, examples, and resources for: Identifying stakeholders and establishing partnerships across care coordination and child-serving systems. Assessing care coordination system capacity, gaps, and process improvements. Financing care coordination systems. Meet quality requirements.