As health care reimbursement continues to transition away from fee-for-service, it is increasingly important for providers to have resources that enhance their ability to succeed and progress along the value-based continuum. However, providers do not always have the resources for changes required to ensure success in these new payment arrangements. Through payer-provider collaboration, payers can play a key role in helping providers with the support and sustainable infrastructure changes necessary to ensure success in value-based programs. This session will focus on payer-provider collaboration that supports practice transformation and performance improvement across multidisciplinary care teams. An AmeriHealth Caritas executive will discuss how a health plan can augment practice resources and support required practice evolution. FQHC/community health center representatives will share their experience with implementing effective strategies to manage value-based contracts and foster a sustainable culture of performance improvement within their practices.

The future is here. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning are emerging buzz words, but what are their practical applications to community health centers? This session will provide an overview of what these cutting-edge technologies are and examples of how they are being used to impact the operations of health centers. Participants will understand the difference between analytics, big data, AI, and data visualization and learn how these technologies can enable health centers to predict adverse health events and increase operational efficiency.

It’s time for your CHC to grow, but you don’t know whether to expand operations at a current location, relocate to a larger facility, or enter a new geographic market. It’s a common dilemma that many leaders face. This session lays out a step-by-step approach to using the information you already have to build models that quantify these scenarios for sound, data-driven planning. It will outline the process for leveraging the UDS Mapper to identify underserved markets, calculating utilization rate to measure productivity of your current operation, utilizing historical company data and benchmarks to estimate visit volume, and constructing pro forma financial statements to forecast financial impacts. In the end, CHC management will have a reliable model of each option and an objective cost/benefit framework for strategic planning.