Astute Doctor Education Announces Strategic Partnership With SullivanLuallin Group
Goal Is to Help Hospitals and Medical Groups Improve CAHPS Scores and Reimbursement
(firmenpresse) - LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 02/11/15 -- , a national company dedicated to building and enhancing physician interpersonal skills through online and live learning programs, announced today a strategic alliance with , one of the nation's most recognized providers of patient experience assessment and consulting services.
With a 30+ year track-record covering more than 2,500 healthcare organizations, SullivanLuallin Group has worked with many of the nation's leading hospitals, medical groups and health systems. Under this new partnership, the company will make Astute Doctor's platform of innovative available to new and existing clients looking for ways to improve Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) and Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers (CG-CAHPS) survey scores. Astute Doctor's provider education will now form a core component of SullivanLuallin Group's proprietary patient experience improvement programs.
This strategic partnership also enables Astute Doctor to expand its patient experience offering to clients, who can now take advantage of SullivanLuallin's extensive range of assessment and consulting services including patient experience surveys, mystery patient visits, and provider shadow coaching.
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HCAHPS and CG-CAHPS are standardized, publicly reported surveys evaluating patients' perspectives of care received. The surveys collect data on quality care measures such as doctor communication, access to care and care coordination. Depending on the group size, the reporting of CAHPS surveys scores is required to avoid a -2% PQRS penalty in 2017. Further, survey results influence the payment of a penalty or incentive under the Medicare value-based payment modifier (VBPM). Thousands of hospitals and group practices nationwide are looking for ways to implement programs to help improve their CAHPS scores to maximize their reimbursements.
"Finding effective ways to develop the kind of patient interactions which result in better patient health outcomes and improved quality patient care is a vital task for providers today," notes Meryl D. Luallin, founder and chief executive officer of SullivanLuallin. "Working with Astute Doctor will help us give our clients the tools necessary for achieving optimal CAHPS survey scores."
"Doctor interpersonal skills are the biggest influencer of overall CAHPS survey scores," notes Sue Larsen, co-founder and chief operating officer of Astute Doctor. "Doctors want to relate well to their patients, but the demands of healthcare today sometimes make this difficult. We give doctors techniques for delivering a good patient interaction every time, and help hospitals and group practices achieve strong overall CAHPS survey scores that drive reimbursements, competitive advantage and patient health outcomes. Our partnership with SullivanLuallin Group now provides us with even more resources to help our clients deliver an excellent patient experience in every area of their care."
Astute Doctor Education is a California-based, global education company committed to transforming healthcare through improved physician bedside manner. Astute Doctor provides a comprehensive suite of physician interpersonal skills courses that improves patient experience and health outcomes, improves healthcare efficiencies, and reduces physicians' risk of malpractice litigation. Combining evidence-based medicine with best-practice adult learning techniques, Astute Doctor uses integrated online and live education to develop practical skills physicians can immediately incorporate into daily practice. Additional information is available at
SullivanLuallin Group provides comprehensive and programs for transforming the patient experience -- from patient satisfaction surveys to customer service training, provider shadow coaching, mystery shopping, and consulting programs. With more than 30 years of healthcare experience, SullivanLuallin Group has seen the industry evolve, and understands the unique challenges organizations face concerning patient satisfaction, employee engagement and retention, budget constraints and reimbursement.
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