Webinar: Funding CHWs and Pt Navigators in Cancer Care: Understanding New Medicare Billing Codes

This webinar will help explain the CY2024 CMS physician fee schedule (aka “CMS rule”) as it pertains to Principal Illness Navigation, Community Health Integration, and Social Determinants of Health Risk Assessment codes. We will discuss what we know, what we don’t know, and how to comment on real-world implementation of these new codes. We will also discuss training and resources to position cancer patient navigators for success and provide examples from two states and their CHW trainings and certification processes.

Presenters:

Katie Garfield is the Director of Whole Person Care at the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School. In this role, Katie works to advance state and federal policies that better enable the U.S. health care system to identify and respond to social determinants of health. As part of this work, Katie partners with states, community-based organizations, health care providers, health plans, and coalitions across the nation to develop strategies to establish more widespread, equitable access to innovative services such as nutrition interventions, patient navigation, and community health worker services. Prior to joining the Center, Katie was an associate at Ropes & Gray LLP. She is a licensed member of the Massachusetts Bar.

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, PhD, MA is Associate Professor of Medicine for the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Associate Professor of Prevention and Community Health for the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health, and Associate Center Director, Community Outreach, Engagement and Equity for the GW Cancer Center. Her personal mission is to make evidence-based health care and disease prevention strategies available to more people as quickly as possible. Her research focuses on patient navigation, cancer survivorship, evidence-based cancer control, and health equity for intersectional lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) communities.

Elizabeth A. Rohan, PhD, MSW is a health scientist in CDC’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control. Drawing on her background in clinical oncology social work, she works to address a wide range of psychosocial challenges affecting cancer survivors and their caregivers. Her research focuses on patient navigation and community health worker interventions. She is a co-lead of the CDC’s Community Health Worker Workgroup. Her recent studies have provided an approach for increasing the health and wellness of cancer survivors in rural communities through tele-mentoring of rural providers and providing patient navigation and community health worker services to post-treatment survivors.

Limited availability, register here:  https://cdc.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJIsfuuoqzMrGml8lKnXDSxtuwt1wZ-Jvqs