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How States Can Embed Palliative Care in Health Care Reform Initiatives

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State policymakers have a number of different opportunities to integrate palliative care into current health care initiatives. Palliative care can be an important component of these strategies. Palliative care can be an important component of these strategies. As of 2022, over 300 waivers are active across states.

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Measuring What Matters: Opportunities for States

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The meaningful engagement of people in their own care is a salient feature of quality health care. State policy makers have developed a range of strategies to build the patient voice into care and care planning. Measures that Matter. Measuring What Matters Most to Older Adults, www.ncqa.org.

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State Community Health Worker Models

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State Community Health Worker Models Updated December 10, 2021. Community Health Worker (CHW) is an umbrella term that encompasses several? frontline public health workers — including Community Navigator,?Promotora, facilitate care coordination?with provide health education. MA Medical Assistance .

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Aligning Quality Measures with the National Care Coordination Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN)

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Aligning Quality Measures with the National Care Coordination Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) June 28, 2022 / by Olivia Randi.

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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. Target Populations That Could Benefit from Palliative Care Services Use data to identify Medicaid enrollees with serious illness.

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Tennessee’s Care Coordination Tool: Marshaling Data to Help Providers Coordinate Care

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For many years, states have worked to ensure that Medicaid participants have access to patient-centered medical homes (PCMH). The PCMH program began in January 2017 and THL began in December 2016. The PCMH program began in January 2017 and THL began in December 2016.

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

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Primary care case management (PCCM) programs are one of the oldest types of Medicaid managed care, but over time most states have shifted to use managed care organizations (MCOs) to deliver services to Medicaid participants. However, as of 2018, 13 states still delivered services through PCCM programs to about 5.5