This six-part educational video series provides mid-level leaders with foundational knowledge and strategies for leading their team and influencing others as they navigate the shift to value-based payment and population health.
Before You Begin: Complete thePre/post-Training Evaluation template on page 8 within the Discussion Questions and Activities document before you begin the series and again after you complete Module 6.
Description and Topics Covered
Understand the basics of healthcare finance for mid-level leaders and how it connects to your work.
Gain a basic understanding of traditional and value-based payment methodologies
Explore the role of wellness, transitional care, and chronic care services in value-based systems
Discussion Questions
How does your department contribute to the bottom line of your organization?
Might the transition to value change the way your department generates revenue (or savings)? If so, in what way?
What is the financial outlook for your organization over the next 1-2 years? What about the next 3-5 years?
Recommended Activities
Talk to your CFO or Controller to learn more about your organization’s finance-related strengths and vulnerabilities.
15 Key Levers Driving Value-Based Care Success - This report outlines 15 priority areas for healthcare organizations to focus on in order to successfully transition to value-based care.
Global Budgeting - Rural health care delivery is being shaped by changes in payment policies and financing sources, continually evolving quality measures and expectations, and evolving models of care delivery. Success in this transformation requires high-performance rural health organizations. Speaker Dr. MacKinney, MD, MS, University of Iowa, shares his expertise on Global Budgeting. This innovative approach involves an annual expectation for revenue for all inpatient and hospital outpatient care in advance.
Value-Based Care (VBC) Options for Rural webinar series - This webinar series will provide hospital and clinic teams with education regarding the transition to VBC.
This report from the National Rural Health Resource Center, outlines alternative strategies and recommendations to address rural health workforce challenges prevalent throughout the country. The strategies in this report – centered on new workforces, partnerships and networks, technology, and education – serve as a guide to help rural health organizations and state program partners build and grow a sustainable and successful rural health care workforce.
This report serves as a framework to inform quality in critical access hospitals, assist them in creating sustainable quality infrastructure, moving beyond mere measures, and toward organizational excellence.
Learn a practical approach to identifying key patient populations and a process to initiate population health planning. Learn how to integrate population health initiatives as part of an organization’s strategy.
These summaries provide information about measures added and removed from MBQIP since fall 2017. For more information about measure changes to MBQIP, see Appendix B in the MBQIP Fundamentals Guide for State Flex Programs.