Palliative Care Service Benefit

  • Hawaiʻi is the first state to comprehensively cover palliative care services for its Medicaid beneficiaries, by adding community palliative care as a preventive service in its Medicaid state plan.
  • This novel SPA (State Plan Amendment) is the result of multi-stakeholder collaboration over many years. It serves as a road map for other states exploring new ways to pay for interdisciplinary, community-based palliative care.

We just added this new page to introduce the rollout of the new Palliative Care Service Benefit in Hawaiʻi. Read more