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LightSpring Home Care’s New Leader Wants To Prove Smaller Agencies Can Do Big Things

Home Health Care

Through quality initiatives that we are doing internally, through metrics that are already very high here, quality assurance initiatives. Caregiving in Philadelphia is such an integral part of the economy. I believe the basis for this agency to be successful is the quality of care,” Primavera said. “I

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

NASHP

States may consider creating standards and programmatic requirements to ensure that palliative care services conform to state Medicaid expectations. licensed hospice providers), with quality assurance provisions and any licensing updates necessary to ensure team competencies for non-hospice care.

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

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. The state began implementation of palliative care legislation with an analysis of state Medicaid claims and encounter data.

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About This Resource Guide: Promising Practices to Address Health Disparities

NASHP

Data: Cara James et al., “ Federal Action Is Needed to Improve Race and Ethnicity Data in Health Programs ” (Grantmakers In Health and National Committee for Quality Assurance, October 2021). COVID Community Partnership Project 2020–2021: Outcomes of Integrating Community Health Workers into COVID-19 Response Efforts.”

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Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

NASHP

From 2015 to 2018, Colorado Medicaid operated the enhanced primary care medical provider (PCMP-E) program, which rewarded those PCCM providers (referred to in Colorado as PCMPs) that met at least five of nine enhanced factors with a $0.50 PMPM increase in their regular PMPM rates. Colorado assigns almost all Medicaid participants to a RAE.