NASHP Webinar Recording: Hawaii’s First-in-the-Nation Medicaid State Plan Amendment for Community Palliative Care
The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) held a webinar August 5 on, "Hawaii’s First-in-the-Nation Medicaid State Plan Amendment for Community Palliative Care."
For the first time, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved a Medicaid state plan amendment (SPA) to establish palliative care services provided in non-hospital settings as a Medicaid covered service. By adding community palliative care as a preventive service in its Medicaid state plan, Hawaii is the first state to be able to comprehensively cover these palliative care services for its Medicaid beneficiaries.
The webinar talked about this work in Hawaii and the plans for implementation. Speakers included:
- Scott Bane, JD, MPA, Senior Program Officer, The John A. Hartford Foundation
- Torrie Fields, Founder and CEO, TFA Analytics
- Wendy Fox-Grage (moderator), Senior Director, NASHP
- Judy Mohr Peterson, PhD, Med-QUEST Administrator, Hawaii Department of Human Services
- Joy Soares, Policy Analyst, Med-QUEST Division, Hawaii Department of Human Services
Watch the webinar recording and download the slides.
Learn more about the webinar.
Go to NASHP's Palliative Care Resource Center.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of NASHP.
