National Academy for State Health Policy: Featured Palliative Care Resources
The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) has recently updated its hub of resources for state policymakers to expand access to palliative care.
Palliative care is a type of interdisciplinary medical care that reduces physical discomfort, improves quality of life and makes living with a serious illness easier. Across the nation, there is an acute need for increasing awareness and use of palliative care to improve quality of life for patients, a goal toward which many policymakers in various states are making progress.
NASHP's collection of resources highlight the importance of palliative care use, effective strategies to increase awareness of palliative care, and state successes with policy reform to improve care for those with serious illness.
Featured Resources:
- Brief: How States Can Embed Palliative Care in Reform Initiatives
State policymakers have opportunities to include palliative care in health reform efforts to improve quality and drive down costs. - Technical Support: State Policy Institute to Improve Serious Illness Care
Six states are receiving assistance in developing, implementing and enhancing serious illness care policies and systems. - Maps: Palliative Care Legislative and Budget Initiative Trackers
A set of interactive maps show information on state palliative care advisory taskforces and legislative actions. - Palliative Care Advisory Task Forces - legislation and recommendations
- States with Palliative Care Information Programs
- Recent State Actions That Support and Expand Palliative Care
- Report: Cost Analysis of Palliative Care Through Medicaid
A report estimates the financial impact of offering palliative care to Medicaid enrollees would return $0.80 to $2.60 for every $1 spent.- Q&A: Actuarial Analysis of a Medicaid Palliative Care Benefit
A summary Q&A captures key takeaway points for state policymakers when designing a Medicaid palliative care benefit. - Webinar: Medicaid Palliative Care Benefits
A webinar featuring a philanthropy, actuary, state leader, and NASHP, discusses how serious illness and end-of-life care can be approached from a policy and advocacy angle.
- Q&A: Actuarial Analysis of a Medicaid Palliative Care Benefit
- Resource: Educating the Public on Palliative Care
A web resource helps states bridge the information gap and educate people about palliative care and how to access it.
Go to NASHP's Palliative Care Resource Hub for more useful tools.
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