High Value Care Cases
Learn how to reduce unnecessary testing and treatment, minimize harm, and make evidence-based decisions that improve outcomes and reduce waste.
Designed for internal medicine physicians, hospitalists, residents, and other clinicians, ACP's High Value Care Cases series includes four CME/MOC-eligible learning activities on making thoughtful, evidence-based, cost-conscious decisions in everyday practice.
What You’ll Learn
Through clinical scenarios and practical strategies,
you will explore how to :
- Reduce unnecessary testing and treatment
- Identify and eliminate low-value interventions
- Select appropriate clinical tests and imaging studies
- Apply diagnostic reasoning to everyday clinical decisions
- Align care decisions with patient goals and values
What Is Included
The High Value Care Case series includes:
- Four online interactive learning modules
- CME/MOC eligibility
- Realistic case-based learning
- Evidence-based guidance
- Audio learning options
- Downloadable educations resources
High Value Care Cases 1: Eliminating Health Care Waste
Explore interactive cases on appropriate testing and imaging that demonstrate how unnecessary services can increase costs expose patients to avoidable harm. This module focuses the first three elements of high-value decision-making, including understanding benefits, harms, interventions; eliminating those with little or no benefit; choosing options maximize value.
High Value Care Cases 2: The Cost of Care
1 CME
This activity explores how insurance coverage, copays, and other out-of-pocket costs affect patient care and treatment adherence and offers practical strategies for discussing costs with patients.
Value Care Cases 3: Diagnostic Processes
1 CME
This module introduces practical tools such as bias check-ins, diagnostic timeouts, metacognition, and interpretation of test characteristics to help you choose interventions that maximize benefit, minimize harm, and reduce unnecessary costs.
High Value Care Cases 4: Care Setting and Cost
1 CME
Compare hospital and outpatient charges, recognize how diagnostic delays and errors can increase costs and harm, and apply high value care principles to safe transitions, medication reconciliation, and discharge planning in this brief activity.