Partners For Kids Provider Survey Opens October 19
Partners For Kids’ mission is to improve the health of children through high value, innovative care and community partnerships. Our providers are our most important partners. That’s why your feedback is important to us – it impacts the services we offer you. Please share your feedback through the Partners For Kids Annual Provider Satisfaction Survey. The survey will be emailed October 19 to providers and practice managers who have been part of the Partners For Kids network for at least 60 days. Respondents will be entered in a drawing and three entries will be randomly chosen to receive lunch for their office.
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Welcome Angie Eberhart to Partners For Kids
It is with great pleasure that we announce the addition of Angie Eberhart, DNP, APRN, FNP-C to the Partners For Kids West Region team! Angie joined Dayton Children’s in 2018 and brought with her a wealth of provider and operations experience from numerous primary care settings. Over the last five years, she has been instrumental in providing clinical leadership to the Dayton Children’s Health Partners clinically integrated network and in this role has led endeavors to improve care for children with headaches, constipation, asthma, depression, and more. Angie is the Clinical Director for Dayton Children’s Population Health team and will lead quality improvement efforts to support our PFK network of practices. Please join us in welcoming her to the team!
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Cornerstone Pediatrics Receives the “Innovation” Quality Improvement Award
Cornerstone Pediatrics received the 2023 “Innovation” Quality Improvement (QI) Award. Cornerstone has been working on a well-care visit project with Partners For Kids since fall 2022. In the brief time Partner For Kids has worked with Cornerstone, they have been highly innovative. They hit the ground running after completing their QI training by expanding their well-care visit hours. The office added an extra hour in the morning and created a split lunch that allows the office to continue seeing patients during that time. A third late clinic option was also added. Cornerstone was one of the first adopters of the Partners For Kids Provider Portal, utilizing it for the mismatched attribution list and annual well-care visits due. For both reports, the patient charts were flagged, and patients were contacted to schedule. This practice started its second Partner For Kids QI project around fluoride varnish, while simultaneously starting the AAP’s Oral Health Assessment project. They were efficient in combining resources and testing interventions. The QI lead nurse has also made data reports easy to access and automated, allowing the data to be consistent and prompt. The QI provider champion has fully supported all projects and continues to ask what they can accomplish next. Please join us in congratulating Cornerstone Pediatrics!
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2023 Network Requirement Reminder
Partners For Kids would like to remind our network to complete the network requirement before December 31, to ensure eligibility for 2023 incentive bonuses. For primary care, this means the completion of one of the qualifying activities. If you would like a status update on your organization’s network requirement, please reach out to your provider relations specialist.
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Patient Outreach Through Partners For Kids
The Partners For Kids Patient Outreach Team contacts patients on behalf of practices and organizations to encourage Partners For Kids members to schedule recommended appointments and connect them to beneficial resources. Learn more about outreach offerings and our success assisting Partners For Kids members in scheduling and completing well child appointments.
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RSV Toolkit and Webinar Recording Now Available
A recording of the Monday, September 25, “Efficacy, Safety, and Logistics of Nirsevimab for RSV Prevention” is now available. Partners For Kids has also created an RSV toolkit where you will find communication from Partners For Kids on RSV, nirsevimab updates, materials that help explain the importance of RSV prevention, and recommendations for using nirsevimab to patients.
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Partners For Kids Now Receiving ImpactSIIS Data
Partners For Kids is now receiving vaccination data for all members from Ohio’s state immunization registry, ImpactSIIS. This enables us to accurately report on vaccination gaps for members who we may not have received the claim for the immunization administration. This can happen when members move into the Partners For Kids region after receiving an immunization, or when members have Medicaid as a secondary payor. This new data source is particularly helpful in the West region, where we did not receive claims data until the third quarter of 2020. ImpactSIIS information is now automatically flowing into any quality report you receive from Partners For Kids and will be included in the calculations for the Provider Incentive Plan. For more information on the state vaccination registry, click here.
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Pharmacy and Prescribing Updates |
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Quarterly Update for Partners For Kids Pediatric-Focused Unified Preferred Drug List
Partners For Kids Unified Preferred Drug List for Ohio Medicaid Plans is now available for review on the Partners For Kids resource webpage. The Ohio Department of Medicaid’s (ODM) UPDL is implemented by the single Pharmacy Benefit Manager, Gainwell Technologies. Partners For Kids has condensed the UPDL into commonly prescribed drug classes for pediatric primary care and behavioral health providers. To review specific changes that took place October 1, please see our Pharmacy Coverage Updates document. For questions about Partners For Kids Coverage Resources, please contact PFKPharmacy@childrensdayton.org.
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Partners For Kids Updates |
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We are pleased to welcome the following providers and practices who have joined the Partners For Kids provider network:
- Elizabeth Rose Shisler-Dawson, MD – Premier Integrated Medical Associates, LTD
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October 19: Annual Partners For Kids Provider Satisfaction Survey Opens
October 30: Annual Partners For Kids Provider Satisfaction Survey Closes
November 8, noon to 1 p.m. Behavioral Health For Primary Care Webinar Series: “Is This Normal? Breaking Down Behavioral Development in Young Children,” presented by Maria Stamatakos, MD
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Forgot to bookmark the Partners For Kids provider portal? You can always access it through our resource page – just search “provider portal.” If you would like to know more about the Partners For Kids provider portal or information on accessing the provider portal, reach out to your Partners For Kids provider relations representative at PFKProRelations@childrensdayton.org!
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Contact Partners For Kids Provider Relations
If you have questions regarding any of the information in this newsletter or suggestions regarding newsletter content that would be useful to your practice, please contact us at PFKProRelations@childrensdayton.org.
Visit us at PartnersForKids.org.
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