Updating your game plan for APP compensation

The ongoing financial pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic amplify pre-existing challenges of changing payment models for medical groups, making intentional design of care teams and optimization of each team member essential.

Advanced practice providers (APPs) can play key roles on care teams, but simply adding APPs to a staffing model is not enough to ensure better performance that results in improved care outcomes and meeting requirements for value-based reimbursement, according to Amy Noecker, MEd, principal, APP Workforce Practice at SullivanCotter.

“Despite the significant growth in the APP workforce during the last decade, healthcare organizations all too often have not seen reciprocal gains in revenue and access,” Noecker said during her session at the 2020 Medical Practice Excellence Conference. “Without the corresponding increases in patient volumes and revenue, operating margins really can’t sustain any unsupported cost.”