2015 in Dallas: Blazing New Trails
Monday, October 19, 2015
- Preconference: Improving Health, Lowering Costs: Translating Population Health into Effective State Policy
- Preconference: Finding Shared Solutions Across Mental Health, Substance Use, and Medicaid to Promote Recovery
- Opening Plenary: The Double-Edged Sword of Health Care Integration: Consolidation and Cost Control
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
- Morning Plenary: The Next Frontier: Global Budgets and other Strategies to Tackle Health Care Costs
- Catching the Next Waiver: State Flexibility, Section 1332 and “Super Waivers”
- Care Beyond Cure: Palliative and End-of-Life Care
- Mind Meld: Integrating Behavioral Health Services for Individuals with Complex Needs
- Oral Health Access: Putting Teeth in Public Policy
- Giving Silos the Boot, State Demonstrations Integrate Medicare and Medicaid
- Luncheon Plenary: The ACA at 5: What’s Next for States
- Public Health in the Changing Healthcare Landscape
- Tackling the Prescription and Opioid Abuse Epidemic
- Medicaid Expansion: Staking New Ground & Corralling Cost Savings
- Beefing Up the Value in Healthcare and Improving Patient Encounters
- New in the Community, Managed LTSS Plans Meet Providers
- States and the Physician Workforce: Bringing GME into the 21st Century
- MythBusters! Examining Privacy Rules that Inhibit Data Sharing
- Pioneering Behavioral Health Treatment and Therapy: State Approaches to Providing Coverage for ABA
- Drilling Claims Data to Fuel State Health Policy Decisions
- The Stampede of the State Innovation Models
- Managed Care for Special Populations
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
- Breakfast Plenary: Health Happens in Neighborhoods (and What We Can Do About It)
- Harnessing Data Analytics for Population Health
- The Enrollment Rodeo: Who’s Galloped In and Who Will Be Lassoed Next
- The New Frontier of Children’s Health Coverage
- State Care Coordination and Requirements for Managed LTSS
- Blazing the Trail of Reform for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
- Updates from Health Homes on the Range
- Spurring Population Health Improvements Through Delivery System Innovations
- Wrangling Medicaid Managed Care: Tested Strategies and New Challenges
- Measuring What Matters: Marrying Individual Outcomes to Aggregate Data in HCBS and Beyond
See the 2015 NASHP Conference speakers here.
For individuals living with complex, often chronic conditions, and their families, palliative care can provide relief from symptoms, improve satisfaction and outcomes, and help address critical mental and spiritual needs during difficult times. Now more than ever, there is growing recognition of the importance of palliative care services for individuals with serious illness, such as advance care planning, pain and symptom management, care coordination, and team-based, multi-disciplinary support. These services can help patients and families cope with the symptoms and stressors of disease, better anticipate and avoid crises, and reduce unnecessary and/or unwanted care. While this model is grounded in evidence that demonstrates improved quality of life, better outcomes, and reduced cost for patients, only a fraction of individuals who could benefit from palliative care receive it. 
