Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM): Rehab
Team Success (Recorded Webinar)
Presented by Dana Strauss
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As healthcare moves away from fee-for-service toward value-based models, practitioners across the continuum face new challenges—and new opportunities to lead. This webinar is designed for physical therapists, occupational therapists, and case managers looking to better understand the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) and elevate their role in driving quality, coordinated care.
You’ll learn how TEAM is reshaping acute episode payment and uncover practical strategies to:
- Address gaps in value-based collaboration and population health management
- Improve patient access to timely, appropriate care
- Enhance postsurgical outcomes across the care continuum
Whether you work in acute care, home health, outpatient, or another setting, this session will equip you with tools to help TEAM participants succeed—and make a measurable impact on patient outcomes.
Learning Objectives
- Produce a high-level success plan for TEAM at a participating hospital
- Arrange a standardized process that therapists and case managers using TEAM in the hospital setting can use to support discharge planning to the best next site of care for each
- Construct a proposal for postsurgical site-of-care partnership opportunities that can be presented to hospital leadership
- Analyze improvement opportunities in all relevant patient care settings to support success in TEAM, including the hospital and its inpatient and outpatient surgical departments and discharge planning teams
- Prepare to partner with hospital TEAM leadership in supporting the evaluation of their data and improvement opportunities
- Relate your practice setting’s risks and opportunities to TEAM success to develop a high-level improvement plan, sharing its outcomes with therapy and case management staff, department/committee leadership, and site-of-care leadership
Meet your instructor
Dana Strauss
Dana is a doctor of physical therapy with 27 years of experience in the clinical and nonclinical healthcare industry, working as a public policy professional specializing in value-based care and Medicare. She has deep expertise in health care delivery with traditional and alternative payment models along the whole care…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Understanding TEAM: History, Structure, and Intended Impact
This chapter will introduce the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), explaining its origins, structure, and significance in shifting from fee-for-service to value-based care. It will address the current gaps in interprofessional collaboration and how the model’s episodic framework empowers therapists and case managers. Additionally, the chapter will set the stage for understanding the model’s impact on patient care quality, population health management, and cost reduction.
2. The Role of Therapists and Case Managers in TEAM Success
We explore the critical role of therapists and case managers within TEAM, emphasizing how their expertise contributes to model success and specifically how they can provide care through a more value-based lens in their sites of care. Includes the barriers in fee-for-service and the differences in the incentives between TEAM and traditional episodes of care. The chapter will address how practitioners can be ideally involved in discharge planning, patient navigation, and interprofessional collaboration and how that directly impacts care quality, cost reduction, and improved postsurgical outcomes. The chapter will also highlight opportunities to lead partnerships, influence data-driven decisions, and align with hospital leadership to support TEAM objectives.
3. Practical Strategies for Implementation From Discharge Planning to Partnership Development
This chapter will cover practical strategies for participating hospitals to plan for and implement TEAM, starting with effective discharge planning and extending to the development of postsurgical care partnerships. It will guide therapists and case managers to create standardized processes for identifying the best next site of care, aligning with hospital leadership, and leveraging data to improve patient outcomes. It will also cover how to evaluate improvement opportunities across care settings and build collaborative relationships that support long-term success in value-based care.
4. Question and Answer Session
This chapter is a viewer-submitted question and answer session facilitated by Dana Strauss.