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SUMMARY:How Health Plans Approach Antibiotic Stewardship and HEDIS
DESCRIPTION:About this Webinar Training\n\nCost: Free\nDate: Thursday\, 
 September 8\, 2022\; 1-2:00pm ET\nPanel Discussion: How Health 
 Plans Approach Antibiotic Stewardship and HEDIS Antibiotic 
 MeasuresShawn Trivette\, Senior Research Associate\, NCQA 
 Research & Analysis\, will set the stage for this webinar by 
 presenting data on health plan performance on HEDIS® 
 antibiotic measures in Measurement Year 2020. Then\, a panel 
 of high-performing health plans will share best practices 
 and lessons learned for improving antibiotic measure 
 performance and antibiotic stewardship in 
 general.\nParticipants will hear about the importance of 
 antibiotic stewardship\, in addition to quality improvement 
 efforts and strategies to improve measure performance\, from 
 the perspective of high-performing commercial\, Medicare\, and 
 Medicaid plans. Participants will have the opportunity to 
 interact with health plan representatives to learn about 
 successes\, challenges\, best practices and more.\nWhat You 
 Will Learn\n\nAt the conclusion of the webinar\, learners 
 will be able to:\nUnderstand overall performance of HEDIS 
 antibiotic measures in Measurement Year 2020 and what 
 defines a high performerUnderstand the role health plans can 
 play in antibiotic stewardship Describe strategies for 
 promoting antibiotic stewardship that can be implemented by 
 health plansUnderstand challenges and opportunities for 
 improving measure performance through quality improvement 
 efforts\, communication and moreHEDIS® is a registered 
 trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance 
 (NCQA).\nWho Should Attend\n\nHealth care 
 professionalsHealth care decision makersConsultantsHealth 
 plansHealth systemsHealth centers/health 
 practicesHospitalsPopulation health organizationsFederal and 
 state government agencies\n Faculty\n\n\nStacey Aguiar\, 
 MPH\, CPHQ\, CHESStacey Aguiar is a professional with over 17 
 years of diversified experience and skill sets in Continuous 
 Quality Improvement (CQI) and data analysis\, as well as 7 
 years in education. Ms. Aguiar first received her B.S. in 
 Health Education with a Concentration in Community Health 
 from Rhode Island College (RIC). She then went on to become 
 a Certified Health Education Specialist\, received her 
 Masters in Public Health from Grand Canyon University and 
 also became a Certified Professional in Healthcare 
 Quality.\nAs a Sr. Director of Clinical Quality at 
 UnitedHealthcare\, Ms. Aguiar currently provides strategic 
 senior leadership for both Medicaid and Dual Eligible 
 Special Needs Plan. She is also an Adjunct Professor at RIC 
 where she currently teaches graduate students on performance 
 improvement in health care.\nMs. Aguiar’s passion for CQI 
 came to fruition during her previous positions as a Quality 
 Outcome Specialist at Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode 
 Island and Early Childhood Project/ Quality Improvement 
 Manager at the Rhode Island Department of Health. Ms. Aguiar 
 has been a member of multiple CQI councils\, written CQI 
 plans\, coached CQI teams\, co-facilitated Kaizen events and 
 developed and implemented a State-run CQI learning 
 collaborative.\n \n\nSteven Jacobson\, MDDr. Jacobson has 
 served as Medical Director of Government Programs at Premera 
 Blue Cross since 2019 where he has medical oversight of the 
 Medicare and Individual Market programs.  Prior to his 
 current role\, he was at The Everett Clinic (TEC) for 27 
 years serving as a family medicine physician\, medical 
 director of care coordination and on the TEC Board of 
 Directors.\nHe is a graduate of the University of Washington 
 School of Medicine and the UW family medicine residency.  
 In 2015 he earned a master’s degree in healthcare 
 administration from the University of Washington.  He is a 
 Certified Professional Coder (CPC) and enjoys teaching on 
 coding\, care management and population health.\nIn his spare 
 time Dr. Jacobson enjoys time with his family\, hiking\, 
 climbing\, fishing\, crabbing\, boating and 
 reading.\n \n\nShawn A. Trivette\, Ph.D.Shawn A. Trivette is 
 currently a Senior Research Associate at the National 
 Committee for Quality Assurance where he has contributed to 
 numerous internal and contract-based projects. He has helped 
 lead the annual HEDIS data validation efforts (known as Tier 
 4) and extended these efforts to CAHPS data. He has 
 supported a variety of analytic efforts drawing on internal 
 (HEDIS and CAHPS) data sources\, from First-Year Analyses to 
 NQF submissions to the annual HPR measure selection. He has 
 also developed process improvement and internal reference 
 documents to support the Analysis team. His contract-based 
 projects include testing a proposed measure for the APA\, 
 methodology support for the QRS with Booz Allen Hamilton\, 
 and the antibiotic stewardship project funded by Pew. Dr. 
 Trivette started at NCQA as a Data Scientist I in December 
 2019.\nDr. Trivette has extensive methodological training 
 and experience\, including graduate coursework in 
 quantitative\, qualitative\, social network\, and GIS 
 approaches. He has worked with data sources that include 
 web-scraped data\, the US Census Bureau\, surveys\, interviews\, 
 focus groups\, and a variety of archival and secondary 
 sources. He has written or contributed to six published 
 peer-reviewed articles and contributed to or supervised 
 numerous unpublished research endeavors\, all drawing on a 
 wide array of analytic methods.\nPrior to joining NCQA\, Dr. 
 Trivette was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at 
 Louisiana Tech University and later at the University of 
 Tennessee at Chattanooga. At both universities\, he taught an 
 array of courses on research methods\, environmental 
 sociology\, and social inequality. His research focus was on 
 the relationship between locally-oriented food systems\, 
 sustainability\, and deep democracy.\nDr. Trivette earned his 
 Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst in 
 2012.\n \n\nModerator: Nancy McGee\, MS\, MBANancy A. McGee 
 is an Assistant Director in the Research and Analysis 
 Department at the National Committee for Quality Assurance 
 (NCQA). She is responsible for the development and 
 maintenance of HEDIS measures primarily addressing geriatric 
 health care. She has also worked on research efforts focused 
 on person-driven outcomes for individuals with serious 
 illness\, multiple chronic conditions and 
 disabilities.\nPrior to joining NCQA\, Ms. McGee worked in 
 employee benefits\, including as a benefits manager for a 
 national employee organization\; as a Health and Benefits 
 Consultant for Mercer\; and as a Project Manager implementing 
 benefits administration systems for ADP and Ceridian.\nMs. 
 McGee has an MS in Gerontology from the University of Utah 
 School of Nursing and an MBA from the David Eccles School of 
 Business at the University of Utah.\nContinuing 
 Education\n\nIn support of improving patient care\, the 
 National Committee for Quality Assurance is jointly 
 accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing 
 Medical Education (ACCME)\, the Accreditation Council for 
 Pharmacy Education (ACPE)\, the American Nurses Credentialing 
 Center (ANCC) to provide Interprofessional Continuing 
 Education for the healthcare team. \nThis activity was 
 planned by and for the healthcare team\, and learners will 
 receive 1.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) 
 credit for learning and change.\nThis educational activity 
 is approved for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 
 Credit™\, and ACPE. \nThis educational activity is 
 approved for 1.0 nursing contact hours.*\nThe assigned 
 universal program number: UAN JA0004597-0000-22-025-L04-P 
 Upon successful completion of this program (attending the 
 full session and completing a program evaluation)\, 
 participants will access CPE Monitor on the ACPE website to 
 locate and track their CPE statement of credit.\nThis 
 live course grants 1.0 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) 
 points for PCMH Certified Content Experts.  \n* Please 
 note – You must attend the entire program to be eligible 
 for total number of contact hours.\nNABP Credit 
 Reporting If you are a pharmacist completing a course 
 offering CPE credits\, please notify NCQA through ncqa.org 
 within 14 calendar days that you have completed a CPE 
 course. You must provide the title of the course\, your NABP 
 identification number and your DOB (month/date) within the 
 notification to NCQA. We also recommend you update your 
 education.ncqa.org profile with your NABP identification 
 number.  \n \nDisclosure of Relevant Financial 
 RelationshipsThe National Committee for Quality Assurance 
 (NCQA) endorses the Standards of the Accreditation Council 
 for Continuing Medical Education which specify that sponsors 
 of continuing medical education activities and presenters at 
 and planners for these activities disclose any relevant 
 financial relationships either party might have with 
 commercial companies whose products or services are 
 discussed in educational presentations.\nFor sponsors\, 
 relevant financial relationships include large research 
 grants\, institutional agreements for joint initiatives\, 
 substantial gifts\, or other relationships that benefit the 
 institution.  For presenters or planning committee members\, 
 relevant financial relationships include the receipt of 
 research grants from a commercial company\, consultancies\, 
 honoraria\, travel\, or other benefits\, or having a 
 self-managed equity interest in a company\; or having an 
 immediate family member or partner with such a 
 relationship.\nDisclosure of a relationship is not intended 
 to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made 
 to provide participants with information that might be of 
 potential importance to their evaluation of a 
 presentation.\nRelevant financial relationships exist with 
 the following companies/organizations:\nFaculty:\nStacey 
 Aguiar: None\nSteven Jacobson: None\nShawn Trivette: 
 None\nAdditional Planning Committee Members:\nCrissy 
 Crittenden: None\nNancy McGee: None\nSepheen Byron: Dr. 
 Byron received funding from the Centers for Disease Control 
 and Prevention (contract no. 75D30120C08243) to develop the 
 measure related to antibiotic utilization.\nThis program was 
 developed in part by NCQA staff.\nAcknowledgement\nSupport 
 for this project was provided by The Pew Charitable 
 Trusts.\nDisclaimer\n“The views expressed are those of the 
 author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of The 
 Pew Charitable Trusts”.\n
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