Report Highlights Medicaid Funding of Home Visiting Services for Women, Children, and Families
Home visiting programs have a long track record of improving health and life outcomes of children and families, such as increasing school readiness and reducing hospitalizations, while generating long-term savings. States use home visiting to target interventions for some of their most vulnerable populations and utilize multiple private and public funding streams, including Medicaid, to support these programs. This issue brief, developed with support from the Alliance for Early Success, highlights Medicaid and other funding sources available to support these services and explores opportunities to integrate home visiting into state health reform efforts. The brief also features examples of how states use Medicaid to finance home visiting programs.
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Learn more about Community Health Workers: Policy Opportunities for Population Health and Patient-Centered Health Care at NASHP’s 30th Annual State Health Policy Conference Oct. 23-25, 2017, in Portland, OR.
Discover how states are designing, implementing, and funding their community health worker programs across the nation at NASHP’s community health worker interactive map.
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. 
