COURSE 4 of 7. This course is designed to help you build high-level knowledge of the current medical coding and payment mechanisms of most U.S. healthcare services, referred to as fee-for-service. You will explore why the fee-for-service model has contributed to higher costs in the U.S. healthcare system without clearly improving health outcomes. You will examine the importance of coding to reflect chronic conditions and other diagnoses accurately and how value-based care and payments utilize these measures and data. As you learn about a model to replace fee-for-service, you’ll encounter a range of payment options considered to be value-based that utilize a framework from the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (HCP-LAN). To build on those options, you will learn how risk-adjustment, quality scores, and patient satisfaction measures are critical parts of value-based care and payment contracts. In the summative assignment, you will demonstrate your knowledge by comparing fee-for-service and value-based contracts, using specific examples to explain and justify the importance of documentation and coding, and identifying ways that risk-adjustment and patient satisfaction are incorporated into value-based care contracts.
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Explain fee-for-service medical coding and payment mechanisms and why fee-for-service leads to higher costs without clearly improving outcomes.
Describe the range of value-based payment options from the HCP-LAN Alternative Payment Model framework.
Describe the importance of risk adjustment, quality scores, and patient satisfaction measures in value-based care contracts.
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- Health Education
- value-based care
- Patient Care
- Public Health
- Health Care
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
From Fee-For-Service to Value-Based Payments
Quality and Risk Adjustment in Value-Based Payments
Course Project: Making This My Own
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TOP REVIEWS FROM VALUE-BASED CARE: REIMBURSEMENT MODELS
Its an excellent course with a lot of insights on how to develop models of reimbursement. Its very specific to the US however, and examples from other countries would be useful.
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