Training the Next Wave: Community Health Workers on the Rise

 

Community Health Workers (CHWs) can change a person’s life. Have you thought about hiring a CHW or training a staff member to become a CHW for the value they provide for your patients/clients? Have you thought about becoming a CHW yourself?

Providers can bill Medicaid, Medicare, and certain Michigan payers for services provided by CHWs. Does your biller or revenue cycle manager know how to seek reimbursement? Proper training will ensure CHWS have the necessary skills needed while billing methods allow for financial sustainability in this much needed profession.

Community Health Worker Program

Practice Transformation Institute (PTI) is an approved entity by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) to provide training for individuals seeing CHW certification. We are the only CHW program in Michigan that is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and able to award CEUs for each activity. PTI’s program includes a robust curriculum of 103 hours of virtual classroom learning that meets the requirement of the National C3 Council. Topics include communication, motivational interviewing, action planning, social determinants of health, community resources, chronic conditions, healthy lifestyles, health promotion and disease prevention, and more.

The next CHW Program will begin on March 3, 2025, and end on May 19, 2025. Live virtual webinars will be on Mondays and Thursdays from 9 AM – 4 PM. PTI is authorized by IACET to offer 0.6 CEUs for this program. (Each individual session is 0.6 CEUs.) IACET CEUs are recognized by a wide range of organizations including universities, regulatory boards, corporations, and professional organizations.

https://transformcoach.org/learning-solutions/community-health-worker-chw-program/

https://transformcoach.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PTI-CHW-Course-Calendar_Spring-2025.pdf

Community Health Worker Sustainability Program

CHWs are an essential part of a health care, social services, or community-based organization team. They bring knowledge and skills that enhance the quality and experience of their patients’/clients’ care. How are they best integrated into those teams? What sources are available to reimburse the services they provide to sustain their role within an organization or provider practice?

This new two-part program will:

• Identify services for which a CHW can bill, along with the payer enrollment process
• Explain the link between ICD-10-CM codes and reporting health conditions
• Discuss how ICD-10-CM Z codes are used to pinpoint social determinants of health (SDOH)
• Clarify the documentation needed to bill for CHW services
• Identify billing codes approved for CHW payment by the primary payers in Michigan

This live virtual program will be in two parts on March 7 and March 14, 2024, from 9 AM – 1 PM. PTI is authorized by IACET to offer 0.8 CEUs for this program after completion.

https://web.cvent.com/event/8e9cf14c-a601-460a-a2a4-b89f1c50ee1c/summary

Please visit PTI’s website at www.transformcoach.org or by contacting yyang@transformcoach.org or hkinkle@transformcoach.org.

PTI offers a wide range of educational programs for all types of health care professionals. We know the benefits of working collaboratively on interprofessional teams and how they help improve patient outcomes.