Stay ConnectedThe National Rural Health Resource Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to sustaining and improving health care in rural communities.
As the nation’s leading technical assistance and knowledge center in rural health, The Center focuses on five core areas:
-Transition to Value and Population Health
-Collaboration and Partnership
-Performance Improvement
-Health Information Technology
-Workforce
Episode 2 featuring Paul Moore, DPh
Financial forecasting begins with thinking through how to deliver the product or service that your customers may want. Rural Health Innovations (RHI) has developed a tool, Product and Service Canvas, that helps generate thinking for this development. To get to the end goal and complete a Canvas, you must be clear on your financial goals and consider your assumptions. This work prepares you to estimate costs and project revenues, ultimately forecasted net income for each of your network's products and services.
To take the mystery out of financial forecasting, RHI, in partnership with Steve Stoddard, have developed a tool that will help you think through and calculate a forecasted net income for each of your network's products and services. With financial forecasts in-hand, you will be able to complete your business planning effort ultimately providing your network members and potential funders with a better understanding of your network's sustainability, where you are achieving your goals, and are able to continue doing so over time.
The transition from volume-based payment to value-based payment is underway – accountable care organizations, bundled payment plans, and global budgets are coming to rural hospitals. With value-based payment comes an expectation for care-improving and cost-saving performance. Value-based performance will be driven by, and evaluated on, physician performance. Therefore, to be successful in value-based payment strategies, rural hospitals must actively engage and collaborate with local physicians. Rural hospitals that proactively engage physicians in the transitions to new payment and care models will be most capable of receiving value-based payment.
Dr. MacKinney will discuss new value-based care and payment models that are increasingly prevalent, even in rural areas. He will discuss the stereotypical differences between physicians and administrators and how an understanding of those differences can increase the likelihood of trusting relationships and shared visions. Lastly, Dr. MacKinney will discuss recent updates to the Quality Payment Program.
Objectives
· Understand the increasingly important role physicians play in value-based care and payment
· Describe the stereotypical differences between administrators and physicians
· Discuss administrative strategies likely to improve physician engagement
· Understand new Quality Payment Program updates
The webinar covers the various components of value-based care and explains how the new alternative payments models will make a positive difference for rural hospitals. Rural accountable care organization (ACO) leaders will share their experiences (successes and challenges) with creating culture change to support the transition to value-based care and improve the perception of rural providers within the payer community. Understand the importance and financial impact care coordination and prevention can have on population health. Learn how to rebuild and grow your primary care base to prepare for value-based payment models.
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The National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) has partnered with Dr. Bill Auxier of Rural Health Leadership Radio to produce a six-part podcast series about Rural Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its prevalence in rural America. This series from The Center provides information about COPD, how rural providers are meeting the needs of their communities, and the importance of billing and coding appropriately while ensuring quality of care is being addressed. Each podcast features a guest with expert knowledge in COPD and rural health.
Episode 1 featuring Grace Anne Dorney-Koppel
A business plan outlines the path your network intends to take in order to be sustainable. It builds on your marketing plan by spelling out the resources, partners, and income needed in order to deliver products and services to your target market. A well-crafted business plan can serve not only as a guiding document for network leaders and staff, but also as a tool for sharing information and demonstrating value to members, potential partners, and funding sources.
The core mission of public health has consistently been to reduce the leading causes of preventable death and disability. Moreover, health departments are increasing efforts to work with health care systems and other community partners to address the growing incidence of the leading causes of death in many communities, which are frequently chronic disease, drug abuse, and suicide. These issues are consistently found in Community Health Improvement Plans in both rural and urban communities across the United States.
As hospitals and health departments increasingly focus on quality and outcomes, including the health status of their communities, they should seek out opportunities to collaborate on implementing community health improvement plans. Mobilization of community-based partnerships is a core function of public health, so health departments should be a natural partner for hospitals that are seeking to develop sustainable strategies to improve the health of their communities.
This webinar will highlight the findings from the 2018 Rural Hospital Financial Summit, held in May, 2018, where over 11 subject matter experts gathered together to update the key financial indicators for hospital success in the transition to value-based payment systems.
The Opioid Epidemic has been spreading throughout America, including rural America. There is a recognition that healthcare providers and facilities need to step up to combat this epidemic. Our rural Michigan Emergency Department recognized this problem and made up a plan to take action six years ago. We will discuss how to set up and implement a program designed to limit opioid prescribing in a rural ED, and one that offers patients different resources to help with their narcotic addiction or dependencies.
ObjectivesThis webinar walks rural hospital leaders through the options to implement a financially sustainable care coordination program.
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