High Value Care Cases 4: Care Setting and Cost is a case-based interactive learning activity that examines how care setting influences the cost, quality, and value of care. Using clinical scenarios focused on admission decisions and hospital discharge, the module shows how site-of-care choices can affect charges, patient out-of-pocket costs, treatment adherence, and outcomes. You will compare the relative charges of outpatient care, observation, direct hospitalization, and emergency department admission, while also considering the nonfinancial factors that shape appropriate care decisions.
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CME/MOC:
Up to 0.5
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and MOC Points
Expires October 06, 2029
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Interactive Multi-Media
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High Value Care Cases
The four-part High Value Care Cases series from ACP contains a collection of short, interactive cases and offers resources and guidance to help you incorporate high value care principles into your practice. The first learning activity uses clinical scenarios to demonstrate practical ways to eliminate health care waste and reduce low-value care. Through cases focused on appropriate testing and appropriate imaging, you will examine how to weigh benefits, harms, and costs to make better decisions for patients.
Planners
Nick Gogno
Manager of Instructional Design, Medical Education, American College of Physicians
David Disbrow
Director of Instructional Design and Events, Medical Education, American College of Physicians
Miguel Paniagua, MD, FACP
Vice President, Medical Education, American College of Physicians
Authors
William C. Lippert, MD, MPH, FACP
Associate Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Donna M. Williams, MD, FACP
Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Reviewers
Stewart Babbott, MD, MACP
Miguel Paniagua, MD, FACP
Preston Seaberg, MD, FACP
Instructional Design
Clare Sipler, ACP Instructional Design
Kelly Tuttle, PhD, ACP Instructional Design
No planners, faculty, or reviewers in control of content for this activity have any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
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Accreditation Statements
The American College of Physicians (ACP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians.
The ACP designates this enduring material for a maximum of .5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to .5 Medical Knowledge and Patient Safety MOC credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
Release Date: 10/07/2026
Expiration Date: 10/06/2029