Medical Home Health Coach Practice Impact Calculator
Assess the financial case for adding a diabetes health coach to your practice
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Topics: Primary Care, Service Lines, Medical Home, Physician Issues, Accountable Care, Market Trends, Strategy, Launch Planning, Care Team Building, Medical Home Finance, Practice Management
Tool in Brief
Purpose
Evaluate the return on investment of dedicated health coach managing your diabetes patient population; useful for comparing upfront new staff costs versus downstream benefits of improved diabetic patient management.
Suggested users
Physician relations personnel, physician leadership
Type of tool
Excel, Decision Guide
Key Information
Estimated completion time
10 minutes
Required inputs
- Patient revenues
- Health coach costs
- Downstream assumptions
Tool outputs
- Net present value of investment in home health coach
- Concise summary of impact of health coach addition on volumes, cost, and revenue projections
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Special Acknowledgement
This tool was created in partnership with Mercy Clinics, Inc. (Des Moines, IA), an innovator in the design and implementation of the health coach role. Features were informed by data and results from Mercy Clinics’ successful integration of health coaches within day-to-day clinic operations.
