Be your own architect — pick the sessions applicable to your organization or pay one price to attend all sessions at an attractive discount. Can't make a session? No worries. Each session also will be available online or as a training DVD or CD-ROM shortly afterwards. You can even add a DVD or CD to your live session registration so you can share with a colleague. All webinars will be held at 1:30 pm Eastern time.

The Medical Home Open House will be open all year, so check back often to see which new sessions have been added!

Upcoming programs in the series:

• Coordinating a Virtual Medical Home in Your Community: Lessons from the Iowa Collaborative Safety Net Provider Network on 9/23

• The Colorado Accountable Care Collaborative: Practical Lessons from an ACO on 9/29

  Coordinating a Virtual Medical Home in Your Community: Lessons from the Iowa Collaborative Safety Net Provider Network on 9/23/10 at 1:30 pm Eastern

  Sarah Dixon Gale	Michelle Stephan
  Presenters: Sarah Dixon Gale, lead contract manager, Iowa/Nebraska Primary Care Association and Michelle Stephan, chief executive officer, Siouxland Community Health Center After identifying a need in the state of Iowa for access to affordable prescription drugs and access to specialists for underserved populations, as well as medical home development for the safety net providers in the state, the Iowa/Nebraska Primary Care Association was awarded state funding to create and manage a provider network to bring together all of the community resources needed to make a medical home possible. During this 45-minute webinar, Ms. Dixon Gale and Ms. Stephan will share how the primary care providers in this community work with other local, community-based organizations, as part of a virtual medical home, to improve access to and the quality of care. You will get details on: Developing a community utility approach to medical home development, where local public health and social service organizations can more easily provide support to primary care providers working to become medical homes; How minimal amounts of funding can encourage local entities to come together to begin to develop virtual or community-based medical homes; Creating formal partnerships between primary care providers and local hospitals to increase the range of services available to underserved patients and decrease the amount of uncompensated care and inappropriate use of the emergency room; Using a centralized care coordinator or patient navigator to assist patients in securing necessary resources that may not be available within a primary care provider office; and A case study on how a local primary care provider works with two local hospitals to coordinate the care of patients, including specialist care. The Colorado Accountable Care Collaborative: Practical Lessons from an ACO on 9/29/10 at 1:30pm Eastern
  Presenters: Laurel Karabatsos, deputy Medicaid director and Jerry Smallwood, Medicaid reform unit manager. With a January 2011 go-live date for an accountable care organization pilot, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing is entering into the final stages of an RFP process to identify regional organizations that will function as ACOs, the medical homes that will serve as providers within the ACO and a state-wide data and analytics vendor that will provide real-time data to the providers within the ACO. During this 45-minute webinar, Ms. Karabatsos and Mr. Smallwood will walk us through the ACO development process in Colorado. From the practical challenges to the processes for addressing these challenges, they will cover: The system changes required before launching an ACO; Developing performance measures and an incentives program for year one of the pilot and how these will differ in the expansion year; Balancing between prescriptive and permissive in enlisting healthcare providers to be accountable to their outcomes; Determining provider payments and payment levels to support an ACO; Specific strategies for gaining stakeholder support early in the process; Identifying and addressing marketplace resistance; and Creating the ACO roll-out plan.

  
  

  Additional programs in the Medical Home Open House Series to be announced.

  Registrants can participate can purchase access to archive versions on DVD, CD or On-Demand format.

  The training DVD includes reproducible slides for training.

  You can listen to this program right in your office and enjoy significant savings – no travel time or hassle; no hotel expenses. It’s so convenient! Invite your staff members to gather around a conference table to listen to the CD, training DVD or the On Demand version.

  In case you missed any of the previous sessions, click here to visit our archived learning opportunities:

  • Integrating behavioral health into the medical home
  • Negotiating the medical home contract
  • Accountable care organizations
  • Patient engagement and education
  • Geisinger's care transitions program
  • GroupHealth's staffing models for the medical home
  • Bundled or episode-based payments
  • Evidence-based guidelines
  • Effective case management
  • Risk adjustment and building effective reimbursement strategies
  • Medication therapy management
  • Multi-payor medical home programs
  • Embedded case managers
  • Shared savings
  • PCMH transformation: 9 key hurdles for physician practices to overcome
  • Recruiting, evaluating, supporting and measuring the patient-centered team
  • Home visits in the patient-centered medical home