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Community Health Worker (CHW) Sustainability: Advancing the Profession
Presenter: Ruth Clark, RN, BSN, MPA and Ewa Matuszewski
Community Health Workers (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 two-part program will identify services for which a CHW can bill, explain the requirements for billing the primary payors in Michigan, discuss how to utilize HCPCS codes to report services provided, how ICD-10-CM Z-codes are used to report social determinants of health, identify documentation requirements, discuss potential functions and workflows in the organizational setting, and more. The program is designed for CHWs and other members of the health care, social services, or community-based organization team who regularly interact with CHWs or who wish to gain a greater understanding of the value of CHWs within the team.
March 7, 2025 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Learning Objectives:
- Identify services for which CHWs can bill
- Identify the components of the CHWs payer enrollment process
- Describe the link between ICD-10-CM codes and reporting health conditions
- Explain how Z-codes are used to pinpoint social determinants of health (SDOH)
- Explain the documentation needed to bill CHW services
- Identify billing codes approved for CHW payment by primary payors in Michigan
March 14, 2025 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Learning Objectives:
- Describe key aspects of a CHW Job Description
- Explain how a CHW engages with the healthcare system
- Identify how CHW interventions improve population health
- Describe a CHW’s ability to reduce racial and ethnic inequities in health care through increasing access to care
- Identify the process by which to document a patient/client encounter
- Discuss the importance of capturing encounter data using diagnosis and procedure codes
Target Audience: Physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, CHWs, and other members of the healthcare team
Continuing Education:
Practice Transformation Institute is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard. IACET is recognized internationally as a standard development organization and accrediting body that promotes quality of continuing education and training.
Practice Transformation Institute is authorized by IACET to offer 0.8 CEUs for this program.
For questions regarding the CHW Program or accessibility/accommodation requests under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), please contact Yang Yang at yyang@transformcoach.org or (248) 475-4839.