More and more organizations are moving to value-based care payment models. In this webinar, Cindy Craddock, RN, Referral Nurse Manager, at AristaMD, discusses the best practices for implementing eConsults to support value-based care:
1. What is value-based care (VBC)? How is the VBC payment model changing?
2. What challenges are driven by the value-based care transition?
3. How do eConsults support value-based care?
4. What to look for when implementing eConsults to ensure best practices are achieved?
5. How to measure the success of eConsults within a value-based care model?
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The Primary Cares Initiative: How Value-Based Delivery Models Aim to Strengthen Primary Care
The CMS Primary Cares Initiative provides new value-based payment models aiming to enhance the delivery of primary care to promote efficiency and quality while decreasing healthcare costs. In the second part of this two-part blog series, we explore how eConsults directly support this new initiative across several key metrics. It represents the most recent push for enhancing primary care within health care systems, alongside previous models such as Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC+) program, and the Medicare Advantage Value-based Insurance Design (VBID).
Yet as programs continue to emphasize primary care providers as a locus of optimal care, the question becomes: how can PCPs best work within initiatives such as this to enhance care delivery efficiency and effectiveness and what kinds of services and technologies can support this? A clear answer lies within telehealth technologies, such as eConsults, which is an asynchronous peer-to-peer platform that directly supports primary care capabilities by improving appropriate access to specialist care and improving healthcare outcomes for low- and high-acuity patients alike.
eConsults directly support the Primary Cares Initiatives by maximizing primary care’s value in healthcare delivery, having demonstrated direct benefits in terms of outcomes, costs, and both patient and provider satisfaction.
A continuing challenge in maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of primary care relates to specialist referrals. As more health systems look toward creating PCMH models and consider adopting new value-based payment models under the CMS Primary Cares Initiative, eConsult platforms will be instrumental in improving team-based care coordination and communication.