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Health Plan Accelerator for Palliative Care: A Toolkit for Internal Champions

Health plans can use this toolkit to create or advance outpatient and home-based palliative care programs, beyond traditional acute care settings.

Implementation Tool

February 2024

Improving Nursing Home Care Quality

Curates evidence on improving nursing home care quality and explores practical tools that support effective implementation of care and services that are more person-centered and improve outcomes for nursing home residents.

Collection

November 2023

Medicare Care Choices Model Improved End-of-Life Care, Lowered Medicare Expenditures, and Increased Hospice Use

Medicare model allowing concurrent coverage of hospice care and treatment improves end-of-life care and reduces total costs.

Peer-Reviewed Article

November 2023

Cost Reduction and Utilization Patterns in a Medicare Accountable Care Organization Using Home-Based Palliative Care Services

A home-based palliative care program leads to reductions in hospitalizations and total cost of care, along with an increase in the use of hospice care.

Peer-Reviewed Article

November 2023

Care Ecosystem Collaborative Model and Health Care Costs in Medicare Beneficiaries with Dementia

Randomized controlled trial shows that a collaborative dementia care model leads to reduction in costs among a sample of Medicare patients.

Peer-Reviewed Article

September 2023

The Association Between Primary Care Practices’ Structural Capabilities and Hospitalizations Among Persons Living with Dementia

Care coordination services in primary care clinics are shown to reduce avoidable hospitalizations among persons living with dementia.

Peer-Reviewed Article

July 2023

Enhanced Primary Care for People With Serious Mental Illness: A Propensity Weighted Cohort Study

Implementation of enhanced primary care can improve cardiometabolic health for people with serious mental illness.

Peer-Reviewed Article

April 2023

Dementia Care Navigation: Building Toward a Common Definition, Key Principles, and Outcomes

An expert panel proposed key principles for designing care navigation programs for persons living with dementia and their caregivers.

Peer-Reviewed Article

April 2023

Making the Business Case for Value-Based Dementia Care

Opportunities for identifying the financial value of dementia care to support positive return on investment.

Peer-Reviewed Article

February 2023

Effect of a Community Health Worker Intervention on Acute Care Use, Advance Care Planning, and Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Adults With Advanced Stages of Cancer

Community health worker-led advance care planning and symptom screening program reduced acute care use for patients with advanced stages of cancer.

Peer-Reviewed Article

June 2022

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Hospice Use and Hospitalizations at End-of-Life Among Medicare Beneficiaries with Dementia

Medicare beneficiaries with dementia, especially Black and Hispanic patients, often receive poor quality end-of-life care.

Peer-Reviewed Article

June 2022

Serious Illness Strategies: Driving Value in High-Need Populations

This guide describes key strategies for health plans, accountable care organizations, and health systems to improve care for people with serious illness.

Implementation Tool

February 2022

The Arizona Coalition Model: Home- and Community-Based Palliative Care for the Seriously Ill

Describes the core elements and evidence base behind a home- and community-based palliative care model that was designed by stakeholders to support the health needs of people with serious illness.

Implementation Tool

January 2022

Family Caregiver Strategy Action Guide for MLTSS Plans

Recommendations for how managed long-term services and supports plans can better raise awareness of and increase support for family caregivers.

Brief/Report

January 2022

A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Home-Based Primary Care in Dementia within an Integrated System

Home-based primary care did not decrease hospitalizations for people with dementia, but it did result in more patient- and family-centered end-of-life care.

Peer-Reviewed Article

December 2021

Frontline Provider Perceptions of Implementing Home-Based Palliative Care Covered by an Insurer

Home-based palliative care providers explore key facilitators and barriers to effectively delivering care within a value-based payment environment.

Peer-Reviewed Article

November 2021

Strengthening the Payer-Provider Relationship for Value-Based Success in Home- and Community-Based Palliative Care

Looked at the provider and payer relationship and discussed how successful partnerships between these two stakeholders can create sustainable and efficacious home and community based palliative care programs.

Webinar

September 2021

The Impact of a Home-Based Palliative Care Program in an Accountable Care Organization

Home-based palliative care program implemented within an accountable care organization created cost savings through reduced hospital admissions and increased hospice length of stay.

Peer-Reviewed Article

September 2021

Comparative Effectiveness of a Complex Care Program for High-Cost/High-Need Patients: a Retrospective Cohort Study

A care coordination and palliative care intervention for adults with complex needs was associated with significantly reduced short-term mortality.

Peer-Reviewed Article

March 2021

Implementation of Specialist Palliative Care and Outcomes for Hospitalized Patients with Dementia

Patients with dementia are more likely to be discharged to hospice from hospitals that offer palliative care programs.

Peer-Reviewed Article

February 2021

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Health Plan Accelerator for Palliative Care: A Toolkit for Internal Champions

Improving Nursing Home Care Quality

Medicare Care Choices Model Improved End-of-Life Care, Lowered Medicare Expenditures, and Increased Hospice Use

Cost Reduction and Utilization Patterns in a Medicare Accountable Care Organization Using Home-Based Palliative Care Services

Care Ecosystem Collaborative Model and Health Care Costs in Medicare Beneficiaries with Dementia

The Association Between Primary Care Practices’ Structural Capabilities and Hospitalizations Among Persons Living with Dementia

Enhanced Primary Care for People With Serious Mental Illness: A Propensity Weighted Cohort Study

Dementia Care Navigation: Building Toward a Common Definition, Key Principles, and Outcomes

Making the Business Case for Value-Based Dementia Care

Effect of a Community Health Worker Intervention on Acute Care Use, Advance Care Planning, and Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Adults With Advanced Stages of Cancer

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Hospice Use and Hospitalizations at End-of-Life Among Medicare Beneficiaries with Dementia

Serious Illness Strategies: Driving Value in High-Need Populations

The Arizona Coalition Model: Home- and Community-Based Palliative Care for the Seriously Ill

Family Caregiver Strategy Action Guide for MLTSS Plans

A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Home-Based Primary Care in Dementia within an Integrated System

Frontline Provider Perceptions of Implementing Home-Based Palliative Care Covered by an Insurer

Strengthening the Payer-Provider Relationship for Value-Based Success in Home- and Community-Based Palliative Care

The Impact of a Home-Based Palliative Care Program in an Accountable Care Organization

Comparative Effectiveness of a Complex Care Program for High-Cost/High-Need Patients: a Retrospective Cohort Study

Implementation of Specialist Palliative Care and Outcomes for Hospitalized Patients with Dementia