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    Value-based Care: Caring for Patients

    Online CME

    Value Based Care: Caring for Patients education on multiple screens

    Free practice management CME for AAFP members. Watch for newly added sessions as they become available.

    Learn how to deliver high-quality, cost-effective care while maintaining a patient-centered approach—and get paid appropriately for it, too.

    Value-based care models are designed to give you room to flex your coordination and continuity skills to achieve highly effective patient care. When you know how to fully integrate the principles of value-based care into practice, you optimize care quality and simultaneously keep costs low.

    Enhance patient care, streamline processes, and improve overall practice efficiency as you successfully transition into a value-based care practice model. 

    “This really is better care. Data showed one patient had been to the ER more than 40 times the year before, always on a weekend. My care manager started calling him every Friday morning to ask, ‘Do you need to be seen? Do you need any refills?’ The following year he went to the ER maybe twice.”  
    – Employed physician | Group practice


    Available to AAFP members only.

    Value-based Care: Caring for Patients

    Online CME

    Value Based Care: Caring for Patients education on multiple screens

    Free practice management CME for AAFP members. Watch for newly added sessions as they become available.

    Learn how to deliver high-quality, cost-effective care while maintaining a patient-centered approach—and get paid appropriately for it, too.

    Value-based care models are designed to give you room to flex your coordination and continuity skills to achieve highly effective patient care. When you know how to fully integrate the principles of value-based care into practice, you optimize care quality and simultaneously keep costs low.

    Enhance patient care, streamline processes, and improve overall practice efficiency as you successfully transition into a value-based care practice model. 

    “This really is better care. Data showed one patient had been to the ER more than 40 times the year before, always on a weekend. My care manager started calling him every Friday morning to ask, ‘Do you need to be seen? Do you need any refills?’ The following year he went to the ER maybe twice.”  
    – Employed physician | Group practice


    Building and Leading the Integrated Care Team 

    Andrew Valeras DO, MPH, FAAFP;  Mark Williams, MD; Parinda Khatri, PhD
    1 CME credit

    Upon completion of this session, you should be able to:

    • Using evidence-based research, examine effective strategies for building and leading integrated care teams.
    • Review the stages of team development and how to form, hire, and grow a care team at each stage.
    • Gain tools and strategies for continually and effectively evaluating the team's success and impact on patient outcomes.

    Collaborative Model Case Studies

    Mark Williams, MD; Sarah Coles, MD, FAAFP; Robin Schreur, BS, RN, CCM
    1 CME credit

    Upon completion of this session, you should be able to:

    • List the key elements of the CoCM model, outcomes to expect, and strengths/limitations.
    • Explore how a patient flows through a clinic with CoCM to learn the mechanics.
    • Discuss examples on common challenges to implementing this in your clinic and ways to work around those challenges.

    Don’t Go It Alone – Success Requires Community-Based Solutions

    Andrew Valeras DO, MPH, FAAFP; Mark Williams, MD; Santina Wheat, MD, MPH, FAAFP PhD
    1 CME credit

    Upon completion of this session, you should be able to:

    • Examine the important role of community factors in behavioral health integration, such as social determinants of health and regional variances.
    • Examine the role of community-based solutions in starting and sustaining a successful BHI program.
    • Describe several options for your site on identifying and acting on social determinants impacting the mental health and physical health of your patient populations.

    It Starts With "Why” – Understanding and Engaging your Patients

    Elizabeth Polk, MD, FAAFP, dipABLM, RYT-500
    1 CME credit

    Upon completion of this session, you should be able to:

    • Recognize the importance of identifying a purpose as a key driver of success in behavior change and talk to your patients about their "why".
    • Evaluate your patient's readiness to change and formulate meaningful goals with them.
    • Apply practical tips for behavior change to your patients, your team, and yourself to improve health and well-being.

    Making the Case for Change

    Andrew Valeras DO, MPH, FAAFP; Mark Williams, MD; Jennifer Thomas, MD
    1 CME credit

    Upon completion of this session, you should be able to:

    • Create a process for developing initial proposal case for IBH.
    • Identifying model and IBH resources needed for developing a case for integrating behavioral health support into practice.
    • Identify key stakeholders involved in making process and practice level change.
    • Apply process for effective change management.

    Optimizing Care Coordination Services to Transition to Value-Based Payment

     Jennifer McKenny, MD, FAAFP
    .75 CME credits

    Upon completion of this session, you should be able to:

    • Examine strategies for optimizing care coordination billing.
    • Discuss best practices for implementing and transitioning to Value-Based Payment.
    • Categorize most up-to-date care-coordination services.

    Primary Care Behavioral Health Model Case Studies

    Andrew Valeras DO, MPH, FAAFP; Jeff Reiter, PhD
    1 CME credits

    Upon completion of this session, you should be able to:

    • List the key elements of the PCBH model, outcomes to expect, and strengths/limitations.  
    • Explore how a patient flows through a clinic with PCBH to learn the mechanics.  
    • Discuss examples on common challenges to implementing this in your clinic and ways to work around those challenges. 

    Residency – Program Directors and Residents

    Joseph Wiedemer, MD, FAAFP; Nancy Ruddy, PhD
    .75 CME credits

    Upon completion of this session, you should be able to:

    • Participants will be able to identify three educational and accreditation factors that support BHI implementation in residency.
    • Participants will be able to identify two ways that BHI implementation processes must be adapted to the residency educational environment.
    • Participants will be able to identify practice assessment processes to facilitate BHI operational design that aligns with residency and practice needs.
    • Participants will be able to identify two actionable strategies to establish, grow, and/or maintain BHI in their home program.

    The "In-Between Spaces" – Management of the Patient Outside of a Visit

    Amy Scanlan, MD
    .25 CME credits

    Upon completion of this session, you should be able to:

    • Examine the importance of managing patient care outside of the clinic.
    • Describe the roles and responsibilities of care managers as part of the care team.
    • Identify why risk stratifying patients is important.
    • Apply risk stratification strategies to your patient population that allow resources to be targeted - "right patient, right care, right time."

    The State of the US Integrated Behavioral Health Landscape 

    Andrew Valeras DO, MPH, FAAFP; Mark Williams, MD; Jessica Kenny, PhD; Neftali Serrano, PsyD 
    1 CME credit

    Upon completion of this session, you should be able to:

    • Examine the current US landscape in behavioral health integration and the current challenges in addressing behavioral health needs of patients.
    • Identify the need and promise of behavioral health integration into primary care.
    • Connect their primary care practice to other examples of successful BHI models and explore possible paths to success in integration.

    Additional sessions will be available in mid October.

    • High-speed broadband connection required for online access.
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    The AAFP has reviewed Value-Based Care - Caring for Patients and deemed it acceptable for up to 8.25 enduring AAFP Prescribed credits. Term of Approval is from 8/15/2024 to 8/15/2027. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    The AAFP is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    The American Academy of Family Physicians designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 8.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    CME activities approved for AAFP credit are recognized by the AOA as equivalent to AOA Category 2 credit.


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