Therapy and Value-based Care Models

It’s hard to overstate how important it is for OTs and PTs to understand the new value-based care models.

But, let’s be honest—they are an overwhelming and confusing alphabet soup (TEAM, LEAD, GUIDE, ACO REACH), and that’s just the acronyms.

For OTs and PTs, understanding these models will be the difference between being embedded in the healthcare team of the future—where we deliver highly valued care—and falling into obscurity while our patients receive sub-par care.

Luckily, we have a master at demystifying the complex, Dana Strauss, back on the podcast. You’ll learn:

• How to analyze new models

• How to understand your potential role in them

• How to move your career and your organization forward

I know therapists are so busy on the ground, but we can’t afford to miss this one.

1. You will be able to identify how value-based care models change therapy service delivery in how we assess success of a course of care?

2. You will be able to recognize why specific therapy interventions, like caregiver training and early mobilization, could become more prioritized as we enter into new models.

• Intro

• Discussion

  1. How have you gone from practicing to learning SO MUCH about value-base care models?

  2. Why should busy therapists care about models (that feel obscure) from the innovation center (that also feels obscure)?

  3. What’s a framework for how we can read and understand new models?

  4. Give us some quick wins for staying up to date on new models.

  5. OK walk me through the ACO Models that are out there- and how they might be impacting the patients on our caseload.

  6. Walk me through Episodes of care & Conditions Specific models and how they might be impacting the patients on our caseloads.

  7. When you look at the Novel models that are out there- what do they tell about the future of healthcare?

  8. How is AI accelerating all of these changes?

  9. What is the risk of NOT understanding these new models?

  10. What are our concrete actions steps with all of these new knowledge?

• Live Q&A

• Closing

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OT Potential's interest in this topic: We have no financial stake in the payment models discussed in this course, and no business relationship with CVS Health or Aetna.

Speaker interests: Dana Strauss is Senior Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs at CVS Health, where she leads public policy for value-based care and Medicare provider policy. CVS Health has commercial interests in the payment models discussed in this course. Her views are her own and do not represent those of her employer.