PALTC23 Conference Recordings FR23 Sink or Swim? How to Succeed in a Value-Based Care World

Sink or Swim? How to Succeed in a Value-Based Care World

As, staffing challenges and mounting regulations continue to plague post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities nationwide, it is imperative to begin developing innovative strategies to adopt value-based care initiatives that will improve facility performance, occupancy, and revenues. During this presentation, we will explore the various types of value-based programs available to facilities and proven strategies to improve facility performance. This session also shares best practices on how accessing live data analytics, pulled directly from the facility EHR, can reduce clinician burnout and administrative burdens by prioritizing clinical care, improving quality outcomes, lowering avoidable readmissions, and managing length of stay. Improving these key metrics enables facilities to demonstrate value as high-performing providers for their hospital and health plan partners thereby increasing referrals and boosting revenues.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this session, learners will be able to:

  • Explore various value-based programs available to PALTCs.
  • Learn how to access live data analytics to reduce clinician burnout and improve facility performance.
  • Establish strategies to increase occupancy through value-based care models and improve costs by reducing readmissions and better managing length of stay.

Scott Rifkin, MD

Scott Rifkin, MD, is a renowned entrepreneur and innovator in healthcare with more than 30 years of experience as a physician and operator of nursing facilities. As the owner and operator of Mid-Atlantic Health Care, LLC (MAHC), Dr. Rifkin led the improvement of care delivery and clinical outcomes to residents of long-term care facilities throughout the state of Maryland and Pennsylvania. Under his direction, MAHC’s 21 skilled nursing centers became the national leader in successfully developing value-based care models.

  • 1.0 CME
  • 1.0 CMD Management
  • 1.0 MOC

Release Date: 03/29/2023   |   Expiration: 03/01/2026

Credit Statements:

Accreditation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

CME Designation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CMD Credit Hours: This CME activity has been pre-approved by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) for up to 1.0 management hour(s) toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity.

The CMD Program is administered by the ABPLM. For further information, contact ABPLM at 410-992-3117 or at cmd@paltmed.org.

ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC): Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Financial Disclosure Statement:

The Association requires the disclosure of all speaker/faculty/planner’s relevant financial relationships; presence of off-label use of a device or medication; and discussion of any experimental, new or evolving topic prior to each accredited education activity.

If the learner perceives any bias toward a commercial product or service, advocation of unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendation, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients please report this to the Association's staff.


The following speaker(s) disclosed relevant financial relationship(s): 

  • Julie Gammack, MD, CMD (Planner & Speaker): Stockholder: Amarin
  • Kenya Rivas Velasquez, MD, CMD, FAAFP (Planner & Speaker): OptumRx: Stockholder
  • All other planners, speakers, and AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.

All relevant financial relationships have been identified and mitigated.

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