Therapy and Value-based Care Models

Earn 1 hour of continuing education by joining OT Potential after taking this course.

Course Description

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.

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Learning Objectives

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.

Agenda

Intro (5 minutes)

Discussion (40 minutes)

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 (10 min)

Closing (5 min)

Supporting Research and Journal Articles

• Outcome-Aligned Payments for Technology-Enabled Care—A New CMS Approach to Paying for Chronic Disease Care in Medicare
• Revitalizing Musculoskeletal Healthcare: A Strategic Approach to Value-Based Care
• Advancing the Implementation of Patient-Centered Outcomes in Rehabilitation Learning Health Systems: Insights From the 2024 LeaRRn Summit

Target Audience/Educational Level

Our target audience is occupational therapy practitioners who are looking to learn more about therapy and value based care models. The educational level is introductory.

Financial and Non-financial Disclosures

It is the policy of OT Potential to disclose any financial and non-financial interest the provider or instructor may have in a product or service mentioned during an activity. This is to ensure that the audience is made aware of any bias of the speaker.

We here at OT Potential have no financial stake in this topic. 

Speakers

Dana Strauss PT, DPT

Dana took her clinical experience as a doctor of physical therapy and expertise in the health care continuum and transitioned her career to value based care and policy analysis and expertise. She believes the healthcare system can meet everyone’s needs better. Her passion is moving towards the optimal patient experience and outcomes wherever an individual is in the spectrum of wellness, illness or injury, chronic care, or serious illness. She is optimistic about payer/provider synergistic relationships making healthcare better for everyone along the care continuum and is confident that innovative re-imagining of the roles and responsibilities of sites of care, including the home, can lead to higher value and superior quality of care for all. She recognizes there is a common imperative of a culture shift to dismantle the barriers and unlock the possibilities that lead to true care transformation. She uses insights gleaned from close collaboration with data analytics to demonstrate opportunity to providers and sites of care delivery, moving the needle on change.

Dana is a subject matter expert in care transitions, care coordination, all sites of the acute and post-acute care continuum and their payment incentives and structures, case management, and alternative payment models. She has worked directly with hospitals and physician partners successfully implementing BPCI, CJR, BPCI-A, accountable care organizations, and other alternative payment models. She has strong experience in leadership, strategic partnerships, business development, rehabilitation, and mentoring clinicians and budding leaders. Her special interests are palliative care and home-based care, and how they can strengthen new care delivery models and the shift to value.

Sarah Lyon, OTR/L

Sarah’s passion is helping fellow OT practitioners translate evidence into daily practice. Sarah earned her BA in religion from St. Olaf College, then earned her master’s degree in occupational therapy from New York University in 2011.

Since then, she’s worked in numerous facilities, including a critical access hospital, an acute trauma hospital, and a state inpatient psychiatric hospital. Sarah is the founder/owner of OT Potential. Read more about OT Potential here.

This course was designed to meet your continuing education requirements

We designed the courses in the Club to meet the requirements for “online” and “independent/self-study” courses. To verify the requirements from your specific state (within the US), check out our post, OT Continuing Education Requirements. If you are outside of the United States and have questions, please contact us.

We are proud to be an AOTA Approved Provider and to meet the requirements for your NBCOT renewal.

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