The West Virginia Partnership for Health Innovation (WVPHI) is a coordinating group for health care insurers, providers, consumers and community-based organizations in West Virginia. Their goal is to create a system committed to better quality care, lower health care costs and better population health. The WV College of Emergency Physicians Read more…
Quality Insights will launch a new project in 2023 with the Palliative Care Center and Palliative Care of Southern WV as part of the WV Serious Illness Care Collaborative. The goal of the Serious Illness Transition Support (SITS) project is to improve access to palliative care in Nicholas, Fayette and Read more…
West Virginia Medicaid currently does not reimburse for interdisciplinary palliative care, other than hospice care, but doing so could reduce costs or at least be cost-neutral while improving quality of care. The Medicaid program should consider adding palliative care as a reimbursed benefit. Legislation might need to be considered to Read more…