On its face, value-based purchasing (VBP) courses for home health agencies is common sense. Developing caregivers' skills and knowledge improves patient outcomes. This makes offering VBP training is one of the easiest and most effective ways to increase your quality score for 2023. Better rates of care will result in higher reimbursement from CMS. 

In practice, it’s a challenging call to action.

Home health agencies often deal with the frailest patients in the healthcare system. Falls are nearly inevitable, and one wound that won’t heal can be devastating.

As reimbursement rates shift toward quality of care, now’s the time for home health agencies to help caregivers level up in skills, allowing them to provide better preventative care. 

VBP courses like fall prevention, wound care and electrolyte imbalance give caregivers additional skills that can prevent hospital readmissions. Plus, better care helps your bottom line. Sharing evidence of better care with CMS  – like reducing hospital admissions – can help your home health agency negotiate a better reimbursement rate.

At showd.me, we’ve found caregivers are anxious to level up their skill set as well. Working in seniors’ homes means they’re often positioned to identify changes in behavior, potential fall risks or a general decline in activities of daily living. Providing formal education to caregivers through engaging VBP courses improves their job performance. And it means more people know when to alert the clinical team about a potential issue.

Proactive caregiving helps patients stay independent at home longer and improves your home care agency’s reimbursement rates.

Positive end-user feedback submissions on VBP courses

showd.me content typically has over a 90% user satisfaction rate. End users of our VBP courses rate the material even higher than the required compliance training. We also found that caregivers do more than one optional course when home care agencies offer VBP courses.

Here’s some of what they said upon completing VBP courses: