About the Course

Duration

3 Days

Introduction

When you improve value, everyone wins—your patients, your organization, and the global health care ecosystem. This program examines the latest strategies and organizational models for transforming the way health care is delivered, measured, and reimbursed. Empowered with new insights and capabilities, you will return to your organization prepared to implement and oversee a value-based health care approach that lowers costs and improves outcomes.

Who Should Attend

  • Senior-level management from health care delivery organizations, such as general managers, senior clinical leaders responsible for overseeing care delivery, and financial executives who direct cost management
  • Senior executives or strategists from large organizations that provide health care to employees or customers, collaborate with health care institutions, or offer on-site health services or retail health care (e.g., Minute Clinic) as part of their business model
  • Senior executives from nonprofit organizations that deliver health care services
  • Executives from health care insurance companies, government entities that pay for health care, or other payor organizations
  • Leaders from pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, or other health care supply companies—including startups and established firms

Key Benefits

  • Align your organization around a value-based strategy.
  • Improve health care quality, system delivery, and patient value.
  • Optimize costs through accurate measurement and reporting.

Program Content

Creating a more effective practice

  • Organizing into integrated practice units around patient medical conditions or distinct patient populations for primary and preventive care.
  • Creating and leading a value-based delivery organization.
  • Incorporating primary care in value-based health care.
  • Integrating primary care with specialty care.
  • Overcoming barriers to change.

Measuring and optimizing health outcomes and costs for every patient

  • Identifying, measuring, and reporting outcomes that matter to patients.
  • Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to measure the cost of care.
  • Using outcome and cost data to address areas for improvement, such as matching the right providers to the right tasks.
  • Empowering clinicians to improve the value of care.
  • Demonstrating improved outcomes.

Aligning payment with value

  • Moving to value-based reimbursements.
  • Employing bundled payments that cover the full care cycle.
  • Managing bundled payment contracts.

Integrating care delivery across facilities in health systems

  • Rationalizing service lines.
  • Performing services in the right location.
  • Integrating patient care across locations.

Expanding across geography through new facilities, affiliations, and partnerships

  • Expanding centers of excellence regionally and nationally.
  • Creating a network strategy based on value for patients.
  • Collaborating and coordinating care with key partners.

Creating an enabling information technology platform

  • Moving to value-based reimbursements.
  • Implementing value-based health care in a large system.
  • Developing a data collection infrastructure to record outcomes and resource use.

Special Features

This hands-on program includes group discussions, case studies, individual activity-based development and small group exercises to deepen your insights and sharpen your skills.