Breakfast of Champions Focuses on ED Visits and the Clinician’s Perspective Under Capitation

  • 14 Jun 2021

June CTC-RI Breakfast of Champions Focuses on ED Visits and the Clinician’s Perspective Under Capitation

With nearly 100 attendees, CTC-RI engaged clinicians with an emphasis this month on complex issues directly affecting the RI practices today.

  • Jay Gates, MD, Director of Integrated Care Delivery, Providence Community Health Centers and Lillian Nieves, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacist presented “PDSA: Potentially Avoidable ED Visits”.
  • Following up was a panel discussion on “The Changing Role of the PCP (and Inter-Professional Care Team) Under Capitation” by Bryan Burns, DO, Physician, Esse Health, & Chief Medical Officer, Effectus Healthcare Solutions, MO and Susan Kressly, MD, Pediatrician & Owner, Kressly Pediatrics, & Medical Director, Office Practicum, PA. Patricia Flanagan, MD, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, & Brown Univ. Pediatrics Professor, served as moderator.

Here are the links to the PowerPoint deck, webinar recording, and the CME request via the evaluation link. The meeting objectives were:

  1. Learn about a Quality Improvement effort, collaborating with pharmacy, to reduce avoidable emergency department and inpatient utilization in patients with diabetes.
  2. Understand changes in clinician and clinical team workflows under primary care capitation for pediatric and adult practices.
  3. Learn about practice-level data that supports performance improvement under capitation and opportunities to improve panel management.