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Emerging State Innovations in Developing a Medicaid Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit

The blog analyzes Medicaid community-based palliative care benefits that several states are developing to advance access to palliative care. Providing access to palliative care can promote positive outcomes and avoid costly, unnecessary, and often unwanted treatment for people with serious illness—many of whom may be dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.