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Navigation Across the Continuum of Care
Karen Mandel, LMSW, Director of Care Coordination Programs
Yanira Padilla-Cruz, MPA, Manager of Care Coordination Programs
Komen Partnership, 2017-2018
4,398 women ages 40 and over served with breast health education and
mammogram referral
2,596 women completed mammogram
304 women received navigation to secondary diagnostics for abnormal findings
15 women diagnosed with breast cancer received care coordination and navigation
Care Coordination Scenarios
Insured
Uninsured
Documented
Undocumented
• Salaries for Patient Advocates (Navigators)
•Transportation
Funding for non-billable services
• Screening
• Cancer treatment Affordable services for
undocumented individuals
• Obtaining treatment records
• Survivorship planning
• Returning to primary care
Communication and collaboration with cancer
treatment providers
Challenges
Why should navigation services be billable?
Identify and address barriers Improve time to care
Reduce costReduce duplication of
services
Improve patient health outcomes
Thank You!Karen Mandel, MSW, Director of Care Coordination Programs
Email: [email protected]
Yanira Padilla-Cruz, MPA, Manager of Care Coordination Programs
Email: [email protected]
