C-TAC & Petrie Flom Center at Harvard Law School Virtual Event: Emerging Policy Opportunities for Community-Based Serious Illness Care
The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) and the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School are hosting a virtual event April 27, "Emerging Policy Opportunities for Community-Based Serious Illness Care."
The event will explore the opportunities for states to bring a broad range of palliative care services to seriously ill persons particularly through changes to their Medicaid programs. Experts engaged in this effort, including state and federal officials, will discuss progress to date, key learnings and prognosis for success. The presentations are:
The Big Picture: Why Medicaid?
- Hope Glassberg, HG Consulting (Federal Medicaid policy expert)
- Kitty Purington, Policy Director, National Academy for State Health Policy
- Anastasia Dodson, Division Admin, State of California Dept of Healthcare Services
- Zuri Song, MD, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School (Moderator)
Exploring Key Issues that Must be Addressed
- Dr. Rae Seitz, Hui Pohala, and Kokua Mao (palliative care physician and industry leader)
- Allison Silvers, Center to Advance Palliative Care
- Kathleen Kerr, Transforming Care Partners (palliative care performance and outcomes expert)
- Torrie Fields, Votive Health (benefit design, payment, and policy expert) (Moderator)
Registration is open for the event.
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Learn more about JAHF's co-funding of C-TAC.
