Eric Palm, chief growth officer, Provider Partners, guides viewers of this new Innovations video with Mark Parkinson through the world of value-based care (VBC) aimed at the long-term care sector, and along the way shares what the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has in mind for future accountable care organization (ACO) models.

Palm also examines past and present ACO designs seeking to attract skilled nursing providers to the VBC fold, and answers fundamental questions, like what should providers be doing now before entering VBC arrangements?

“The first step is to sit down and evaluate what they're doing today. How many physicians do you have around you in your building? Are they hospital? Are they local? Are they regional docs? What does that look like? Do you have nurse practitioners in the building? Theres are so many ideas and ways to think about it,” Palm said.

CMS’s REACH and LEAD models are the highlights of this concise course. Join in and get the information you need to understand why VBC is such a priority for CMS and an opportunity for providers to bring more efficiency and management to clinical programs with incentives to bolster the bottom line.

Questions or comments? Contact Patrick Connole at pconnole@parkplacelive.com.