3-25-2025 CHF Essentials: Updates and Formulary Coverage

March 25, 2025

Educational discussion on the clinical efforts around reducing hospital readmissions for heart failure patients with services and medications that are within our health plan formulary,

Target Audience

RNs / SW / Health Coaches / Paramedics / EMTs / CCM

Learning Objectives

  • Participant will recall heart failure medications and how the medications are titrated over time. 

  • Participant will recognize when to address education and support of members with heart failure and preventing further utilization.  

  • Participant will be able to describe possible resources to assist members with copayments, programs, and formulary to afford when to referral to Pharmacy for AWC visit 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 ASWB
Course opens: 
01/08/2025
Course expires: 
04/25/2025
Event starts: 
03/25/2025 - 12:49pm EDT
Event ends: 
03/25/2025 - 5:50pm EDT
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Program Details:

10-10:20am

Instruct on when to address education and support of members with heart failure and preventing further utilization.

Dr. Degregorio

10:20-10:40am

Describe possible resources to assist members with copayments, programs, and formulary to afford when to referral to Pharmacy for AWC visit

Dr. Degregorio

10:40-11:00am

Discuss heart failure medications and how the medications are titrated over time and formularies currently associated with those products

Melinda Morgan

UPMC Health Plan
600 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Teams

Dr. Nicholas Degregorio, AVP Medicaid Medical Services

Melinda Morgan, PharmD

This knowledge-based activity provides 1.0 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit(s). 

Nursing (CNE) 

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.0 contact hour(s). 

CCM CE will be provided: 1.0 CE - CCM COA will be sent via email from UPMC Health Plan nurse planner approximately 6-8 weeks following the live date of the course. 

This activity is eligible for endorsed credit for UPMC Health Plan EMTs and Paramedics.  Complete ETHOS course work, obtain the attendance certificate, and submit to EMS governing body for 1.0 CE credit(s). 

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credit(s). 

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity. 

NOTE:  Paramedic/EMT CE is approved for any activity in which ANCC (nursing CE) is approved.  This is per Heather Bogdon and Christie Hempfling 

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 ASWB
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