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January 7, 2025
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Learn About Value-Based Care. Learn the fundamentals and real-world application of value-based care that has become integral to improving outcomes in health care. Explore the power of effective communication between healthcare professionals and patients that leads to a partnership focused on quality care.
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Prepare healthcare clinicians and administrators for Value-Based Care (VBC) reimbursement and operating models.
Explore the power of effective communication between healthcare professionals and patients that leads to a partnership focused on quality care.
Develop an understanding of your individual responsibility to lead from where you are to advance a culture of collaboration focused on VBC.
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Learners may study at their own pace to take any of the six courses and the Capstone Project course independently (receiving a certificate for each) or collectively for the specialization designation. This specialization is intended for healthcare professionals, faculty, and students pursuing healthcare-related studies to develop an awareness of Value-Based Care reimbursement and operating models. Through six courses and a Capstone project, you will develop an understanding of your individual responsibility to lead a culture of collaboration in the workplace focused on value-based care. Our industry partner, Humana, brings their expertise and years of experience in providing quality care.
Applied Learning Project
Whether your expertise is clinical, financial, managerial, or perhaps a combination, throughout the six courses in this specialization, your expertise has informed each course module reflection activity and summative assignment. You have stretched your thinking as you have built your knowledge in areas where you may have had less experience and made notes on areas needing further development. The specialization concludes with a final capstone project that will give you the opportunity to integrate and apply the skills you have learned throughout the courses. Just as transitioning to and maintaining a value-based care organization is a team-based effort, this capstone project will guide you in connecting with a team member or supportive colleague that can review some of the work that you have completed in this specialization and provide you with their insights to further enhance your understanding of VBC.
What value-based care is and why it is important
How the U.S. healthcare system has evolved
What quality is and how is it measured in healthcare
Identify the determinants and outcomes of population health.
Describe the impact of social determinants of health/health-related social needs and behavioral health on population health.
Describe the relationship between population health management and the fundamental premise of Value-Based Care
Describe the importance of managing office-based processes for improving patient outcomes and experience, as well as clinical quality.
Describe the importance of managing supporting functions for improving patient outcomes and experience, as well as clinical quality.
Formulate a basic understanding of the relationship between managing processes and supporting functions to improve patient outcomes and experience.
Explain fee-for-service medical coding and payment mechanisms and why fee-for-service leads to higher costs without clearly improving outcomes.
Describe the range of value-based payment options from the HCP-LAN Alternative Payment Model framework.
Describe the importance of risk adjustment, quality scores, and patient satisfaction measures in value-based care contracts.
COURSE 5 of 7. This course is designed to introduce you to the changes an organization will need to make to succeed in value-based care and payment. In previous courses in this specialization, you were introduced to the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative (ACLC). One of the models you will explore is the ACLC’s Accountable Care Atlas model. This model, along with additional information from the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (HCP-LAN), will help you begin to understand the challenges and rewards of transitioning to value-based care. In Module 2, you will explore those concepts through the lenses of three types of healthcare organizations, tying those examples back to types of value-based contracts. You will also explore strategies to address some of the challenges in the journey to value-based care. In the summative assignment, you will demonstrate your knowledge by envisioning that you have been invited to speak as part of a roundtable discussion on the challenges of transitioning to value-based care and payment. You will develop an outline of talking points in which you will share why VBC is valuable, the challenges and strategies that might address them, and where you see opportunities for progress in the transition to value-based care.
Formulate an understanding of the relationship between using a PDSA cycle for quality improvement and the fundamental premise of value-based care.
Articulate the importance of organizational effectiveness in transitioning to and maintaining a value-based care organization.
Articulate the importance of building a high-performing care team for achieving quality improvement in healthcare.
COURSE 7 of 7. Whether your expertise is clinical, financial, managerial, or perhaps a combination, throughout this certificate program your expertise has informed each course module reflection activity and summative assignment. You have stretched your thinking as you have built your knowledge in areas where you may have had less experience and made notes on areas needing further development. You should approach this capstone project in the same manner as you integrate the work you have completed in this specialization and reflect upon your learning through the courses. Just as transitioning to and maintaining a value-based care organization is a team-based effort, this capstone project will guide you in connecting with a team member or supportive colleague that can review some of the work that you have completed in this specialization and provide you with their insights to further enhance your understanding of VBC.
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You will have the knowledge and skills necessary to lead a change to value-based care in your organization.
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