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Overview
This course will be discontinued on October 13, 2019, because a new course with similar content (60262 HCAHPS Series: Value-Based Purchasing) is now available.
'The Affordable Care Act required the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to implement a hospital value-based purchasing program that rewards hospitals for the quality of care they provide as demonstrated by their \\"performance\\" or \\"improvement\\" on measures of care quality. This module will provide information on value-based purchasing, what brought it about, how it works, the measures involved and the scoring of those measures, the impact of scores, and the nurse's role in obtaining high scores.
Goals and Learning Outcomes
- Discuss the origin of the value-based purchasing program
- Discuss the process, outcomes, and patient perception measures associated with the value-based purchasing program
- Describe ways that nurses can contribute to a hospital achieving scores that will lead to greater reimbursement
Course Details
Course Originally Released on : 7/16/2012
CE663
Course Author
MHA, RN, CPHQ, FACHE
PhD, RN
Accreditations
NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791
Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.
CEBroker
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.