Write a 3-page report about the implications of value-based purchasing and shared risk models for your selected organization. Include an analysis of evidence-based strategies to develop an effective organizational culture where these models help to position the organization for the future.
Introduction
Scenario
Healthcare organizations are increasingly expected to link provider payments to improved performance. This model aims to hold providers accountable for the quality of care they provide in a cost-effective environment.
For the organization you have been analyzing throughout this course, identify critical components of a value-based purchasing model. Analyze budgetary and financial implications of value-based purchasing on healthcare management practices and decisions.
Then, identify examples of shared risk models, such as population health. Analyze budgetary and financial implications of shared risk models on healthcare management practices and decisions.
Begin analyzing evidenced-based strategies to develop an effective organizational culture, using relevant data and measures such as benchmarks, research, and best practices. Such evidenced-based strategies should help position the organization for the future, particularly given an environment of value-based purchasing and shared risk models.
Your Role
You are a senior leader of a healthcare organization, and you are in the midst of your complete analysis of the organization. At this point, you have reviewed the strategic initiatives, the organizational structure, and barriers to access, quality services, and cost effectiveness. The next step of the analysis is to consider the organization’s role in value-based purchasing and shared risk models.
From your readings and research, you are learning that hospital value-based purchasing is an incentive program first introduced by CMS but now adopted by many managed care organizations. Value-based purchasing ties various quality care clinical best practices to hospital financial incentives. In addition, value-based purchasing ties in a patient’s reported subjective experience during their hospital stay. Hospitals are no longer being paid based on the quantity of services provided; rather there is now an emphasis on the quality of those services. These quality determinants are somewhat based on benchmarks set by hospitals in general, as well as year-over-year improvements within the same hospital setting. Consequently, there is a great deal at stake for hospitals to collect and use data to ensure optimal quality care and experiences are achieved. Now more than ever, such data plays a vital role in all decision making.
As a natural progression in the vision to improve access to care, provide quality care, and decrease cost, shared risk models are being field tested. Models, such as population health, focus on the role healthcare organizations play to ensure the overall wellness of communities. Such models require providers at all levels of healthcare, not just physicians and hospitals, to be accountable for wellness and prevention services; timely and accurate diagnostics; and cost effective, quality, and available treatment regimens. This model will require the creation of strategic partnerships among the various types of healthcare organizations to improve overall community health through innovative means. It ties significant financial incentives to encourage such strategic partnerships through a shared risk. Pharmaceutical companies, medical device firms, diagnostic services, managed care organizations, hospitals, physician practices, supply chain networks, etc., all have a role in making community wellness possible. Sometimes this reaches outside the more traditional healthcare sector to include the likes of housing providers, weight loss clinics, and workout facilities. All such services are necessary in order to enhance the wellness of the community.
Though most of the literature applies value-based purchasing or incentives and shared risk to hospital settings, the truth is all healthcare organizations need to support these endeavors in order to remain competitive in this new world of healthcare delivery. As a senior leader of any healthcare organization, it is vitally important that you understand your role in this process to best position your organization as a strategic partner. This will allow you to maximize your organization’s success in this new era of healthcare.
Instructions
Create a 2–3 page report that includes the following:
- Evaluate multiple critical components of a value-based purchasing model including financial implications for the organization.
- Evaluate multiple critical components of shared risk models on healthcare management practices and decisions including financial implications for the organization.
- Evaluate evidenced-based strategies to develop an effective organizational culture, using relevant data and measures such as benchmarks, research, and best practices.
Deliverable Format
Use a professional report format of your choice. Remember that you are preparing a professional document meant for executive leadership with limited time. Your report should follow the corresponding MBA Academic and Professional Document Guidelines (available in the MBA Program Resources), including single-spaced paragraphs. If you are new to this type of writing and document style, you may wish to use these sections as a way to organize your report:
- Title page.
- Components of value-based purchasing models.
- Implications of value-based purchasing on management practices and decisions.
- Shared risk models.
- Implications of shared risk models on management practices and decisions.
- Strategies to develop effective organizational culture.
- References.
Submission Requirements
- Report Length: Your report should be 2–3 single-spaced content pages, in addition to a title page and references page.
- Font and Font Size: Use 12 point, Times New Roman.
- Written Communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message and quality.
- Citations: Use at least two scholarly resources beyond those provided in this course, cited in APA format.
- APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and format. See Evidence and APA.
Your instructor will use the rubric to review your deliverable from the perspective of the healthcare organization’s leadership. Refer to the assessment rubric to ensure that you meet all criteria. To earn full points for each criterion, be sure to note the details on what constitutes distinguished
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:
- Competency 3: Analyze the role the organization plays in future models of value-based purchasing.
- Evaluate multiple critical components of a value-based purchasing model including financial implications for the organization.
- Competency 4: Analyze the role the organization plays in future models of shared risk.
- Evaluate multiple critical components of shared risk models on healthcare management practices and decisions including financial implications for the organization.
- Competency 5: Recommend evidence-based strategies to develop an organizational culture in a health care setting that is agile, innovative, and responsive.
- Analyze evidenced-based strategies to develop an effective organizational culture, using relevant data and measures such as benchmarks, research, and best practices.
- Competency 6: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in health care administration.
- Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in healthcare administration.