Value-based care (VBC) models seek to reimburse providers according to the quality of care they provide rather than based upon the quantity of services provided to patients.
Join the California Telehealth Policy Coalition and its panel participants to better understand the intersection between value-based care (VBC) payment models and telehealth. Participants will look at how telehealth and VBC combined reinforce each’s individual potential to improve patient access to care and health outcomes while reducing overall costs. Meanwhile, provider and payer perspectives will help highlight various VBC payment models, how VBC can give providers the flexibility to fully integrate telehealth into clinical practice, the role of public policy in those processes, and related challenges and opportunities moving forward.
Join the California Telehealth Policy Coalition as it hosts a webinar to look at the Department of Health Care Services’ proposal for permanent telehealth policy changes in Medi-Cal (California’s Medicaid program). Speakers will include representatives of state organizations that represent some of the populations and groups who will be most impacted by these changes.
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), which oversees the state Medicaid program (Medi-Cal), recently released their permanent telehealth policy proposals. While overarching policies related to maintaining audio-only coverage and payment parity for all telehealth modalities appear to be continuing, a few additional policies proposed may create new barriers to the utilization of telehealth within the Medi-Cal program.
The Briefing will provide an overview of the state and national telehealth policy landscape and then get into a facilitated stakeholder panel discussion specific to the future of CA telehealth policy. Questions will largely be focused around audio-only, utilization management, and cost/quality/payment issues, given that is where the current AB 133 Telehealth Advisory Workgroup discussion between DHCS and stakeholders has been focusing as well.
