article thumbnail

How California Began Expanding Palliative Care Via Medicaid

Hospice News

In September 2015, the Partnership HealthPlan of California — managed by Medicaid — launched a pilot program dedicated to palliative care, with an emphasis on enhancing patient outcomes while reducing costs associated with caring for chronically ill seniors.

article thumbnail

Blue Monarch CEO: Hospice Startup Seeks to Raise Bar on Quality

Hospice News

I began taking care of hospice patients back in 2015 after moving to San Diego and working in a hospital setting for a while. We also have a home health aide, a chaplain, a social worker, a patient intake coordinator and a medical director. Luckily, we have been able to stay fully staffed.

Hospice 264
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Palliative Care Conference: A Discussion with nVoq

Hospice News

Do you have a doctor and a social worker that can work on, for instance, Medicaid eligibility. We started having palliative care IDGs, where we would have our medical director sit in on case management and case conferences to understand “should we have actually coded this differently than we did?”

article thumbnail

Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. They can be a- Diane: Social worker. Malaz: Social worker, anybody. That’s what Malaz is going to talk about. Malaz: Yeah. Malaz: The MVP.

Medicare 228