Key benefits
The Practice Extend team collaborates with you and your staff to help support your patients.
Improve patient outcomes
Provide additional clinical team resources to target patient needs, resulting in more proactive, patient-centered care.
Drive practice revenue growth
Practice Extend gives you access to various incentives and performance improvement opportunities that enable you to grow practice revenue.
Reduce patient follow-up
Our team becomes an extension of your office to support scheduling for annual physicals, post-discharge and specialist appointments.
How the team helps
- For post-discharge care, perform medication reconciliation and help patients return to the office for follow-up.
- Provide extra support for high-risk patients.
- Optimize medication regimens with comprehensive medication reviews.
- Recommend and assist scheduling 90-day PCP visits.
- Support patients and staff with timely in‑network specialist appointment scheduling.
The Practice Extend team goes above and beyond to help us and the patient achieve the best care possible. This is not just a patient care coordination program but a testimony to what patient care should be for everyone.
General manager, participating primary care practice
Video series
How to a choose a value-based care partner that's right for you
Meet Evan Weiss, vice president of provider enablement, and Meghan Miller, vice president of payer market development, as they take you through how to be successful in partnering to deliver value-based care. Learn more in the videos below.
About Optum
Who is Optum?
Learn how Optum strives to enable the best outcomes for those we serve. We do this through investments in technology, analytics and services to support our health plan clients and provider clients to help them achieve their organizational goals.
Value-based care
What is value-based care?
Value-based care is a very important part of the industry but how does Optum define it? It rewards providers for delivering quality of care, not just volume of care. At its core, VBC is about being proactive with preventive care rather than being reactive to sick care.
Move to VBC
Why you should care
CMS is mandating a move to VBC, patients want transformation of their care delivery and health plans want providers to increase adoption of VBC programs. An experienced partner understands the difficulties and costs to move to VBC and has creative ways to help providers.
Partnership
A successful VBC partnership requires collaboration
From access to good VBC contracts with health plans that have good financial opportunities, to new processes and data to inform those processes, to people resources to help you act on the opportunities the data presents, a collaborative VBC partner can help you get there.
Define your needs
Doing your due diligence
What are you most concerned about? What resources can the partner offer to complement what you already have or need? What does it take to administer the program being offered? Look for a partner who can address your concerns and offer a VBC program to fit your needs.
Next steps
We’re here to help
Evan and Meghan provide closing comments to help you with next steps. They can walk through your decision to pursue value-based care or answer any other questions you may have. Contact information is at the end of the video.
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About Practice Extend
In today’s ever-evolving environment, doing right by your patients takes teamwork. Market, regulatory and other changes create patient care challenges and staff challenges.