PACE arrives in Kentucky, aims for cost-effective, quality care

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) — A brand new program has arrived in Kentucky to assist present cost-effective, high quality care to susceptible, older adults.

The Program of All-Inclusive Take care of the Aged, or PACE, is designed for folks 55 and older. Enrollees voluntarily be part of this system, which offers medical and social providers. Most are additionally dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.

“This milestone is years within the making,” stated Gov. Andy Beshear in a press launch. “The implementation of this PACE in Kentucky expands well being care providers obtainable to getting older Kentuckians who would in any other case qualify for Medicaid nursing dwelling placement. It offers them with an array of dwelling and community-based providers – the place most individuals wish to stay anyway – and at lesser prices than a nursing dwelling.”

Members should meet particular standards to qualify for PACE providers together with:

• 55 years or older
• State certification of the ability to supply nursing home-level care
• Potential to dwell safely in the neighborhood on the time of enrollment
• Residence in a PACE service space

Whereas using PACE suppliers, people enrolled in this system will work with a workforce of well being professionals to obtain coordinated care, together with major care, bodily remedy and social help. They could obtain different providers, akin to dwelling well being, which are supplied beneath the contract. For many members, the great service package deal permits them to stay of their neighborhood fairly than obtain care in a nursing dwelling.

Two suppliers – Bluegrass Care Navigators and Horizon PACE – have been licensed by Kentucky’s PACE program, serving folks in Anderson, Barren, Clinton, Estill, Fayette, Franklin, Hancock, Jackson, Jessamine, Laurel, Madison, McClean, McCreary, Ohio, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Warren, Wayne and Woodford Counties.