Master Clinician Programs and Bridges to Excellence
At the 37th Annual AADE meeting in San Antonio, Texas, Dr. Edward Shahady, who developed the Florida Academy of Family Physicians' "Diabetes Master Clinician Program," discussed methods used to improve diabetes care.
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His work has shown that if you have your MA add questions to their patient check-in procedure, costs and care failures decrease as your documentation increases. During the talk he also focused in on group office visits and how they can improve care and outcomes. He finished up by discussing the "Bridges to Excellence" program, which pays clinicians extra for good outcomes.
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Edward Shahady, MD
Medical Director, Diabetes Master Clinician Program
This program includes:
1. Published articles describing the Diabetes Master Clinician Program
2. Case reports discussing diabetes treatment
3. Standards of Care for Diabetes
4. Pathophysiology of Diabetes
5. Laboratory evaluation in Diabetes
6. Pre-Diabetes guidelines for treatment
7. Goals for A1C 2009-Clearing Up the Controversy!
8. Diabetes Treatment Guidelines
9. Lifestyle Changes for Diabetes
10. Oral Medications for Diabetes
11. Use of Insulin in Diabetes
12. Hypertension and Diabetes
13. Hyperlipidemia and Diabetes
14. Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)
15. Statin Safety with Elevated Hepatic Enzymes
16. Barriers to Diabetes Care
17. Literacy Issues in Diabetes
18. Group Visits in Diabetes
19. Depression and Diabetes
20. Neuropathy in Diabetes
21. Retinopathy and other eye problems in Diabetes
22. Nephropathy and Chronic Renal Disease in Diabetes
23. Alliance for Diabetes Education in Communities (ADEC)
24. Links to excellent on line resources for diabetes care and patient education materials
25. Medicare coverage of blood glucose monitors and testing supplies
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The BTE mission in a nutshell: help the best clinicians build their practices, help patients get healthier, help insurers and employers manage costs better.
BTE programs are designed around three key lessons gained from our research and experience.
First, it’s critical to measure what matters most—the handful of indicators that have truly significant clinical and financial impact. These are the quality measures most predictive of improved patient health. These measures also form a set of indicators to help practices identify patients who are not well controlled and need more proactive management.
Second, clinicians who follow those quality measures will consistently provide better care at lower costs. Typically, they outperform their peers on process measures of quality, and have lower average costs per patient and per episode. In part, this is because they tend to rely more on evaluation and management and less on tests and procedures; they know costlier care is not always better care.
Third, incentives only work if they are fair and designed to increase over time, so clinicians who continually improve their practices are rewarded in kind. The better they get, the more incentives they deserve—and the more patients should be encouraged to utilize them. As in any industry, the best performers should earn the most and have the biggest market share.
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