Health Homes Implementation Process, Frequently Asked Questions

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Learning Collaborative Questions

How will staff be compensated for productivity time lost due to attendance at the learning collaborative?
There is an additional $2.40 built into the PMPM for physician time spent out of the office for the learning collaborative. This is calculated to pay for 2 physicians to attend 6 days of training annually for 8 hours/day per every 500 enrolled patients at a reimbursed cost of $150/hour.
What is the relationship between the sites selected for the learning collaborative and the actual sites that will be participating in the Health Home program?
The sites selected for the learning collaborative will be participating in the health home program.
When will we know the location for the learning collaborative (we have to choose on the form sent)? The first one starts so soon it would be nice to know which one we are to attend so we can make arrangements.
The Learning Collaborative locations and dates have been shared with invitees by the Missouri Foundation for Health.
If an organization has already committed to attending a given learning collaborative, is a letter of intent to that effect still needed?
Yes. The letter will provide needed documentation to MHD. Organizations will decide for themselves which staff are to attend the collaborative.
Can you clarify exactly who must attend the learning sessions? The conference call regarding the learning sessions was pretty specific that it had to be a provider champion, clinician, administrative lead and a trainer per approved site, but today I thought I heard that it could be anyone, even a receptionist. We have three sites approved, but would like to send one team for our organization, representative of all sites, to attend the learning sessions and then they would return and train everyone else.
You are correct that a single team attending the learning collaborative may represent all of your sites, and then serve to train your remaining sites. The team must consist of a provider champion, an additional clinician, and an administrative lead – and one or more of these individuals must serve as your “trainer” for other sites and ongoing training needs. A receptionist would not be an appropriate attendee. The administrative lead should be a clinic administrator with supervisory authority and operational control, not a support person. The goal of the Learning Collaborative is to facilitate practice transformation. The administrative lead should be a person/position of sufficient authority and operational control/influence to institute actual change in clinic operations, policy, and procedures.