
Creating the Right Incentives (1:45pm-3:15pm; October 8, 2026)
Session Information
Mountain Laurel Medical Center (MLMC) will share a data-driven approach to financial sustainability that prioritizes clinician well-being and retention. Rather than simply increasing productivity expectations, MLMC developed a clinical model that balances financial health with realistic workloads, patient complexity, protected administrative time, and meaningful performance recognition. This session will demonstrate how MLMC translates fixed and variable costs, payer mix, and reimbursement into a clear break-even encounter target for each provider—and how productivity above that threshold contributes to organizational margin. Attendees will learn how MLMC integrates provider productivity incentives with quality expectations and shared-savings opportunities for care teams as it expands its value-based care model. Participants will gain a practical framework for connecting provider productivity to patient access, workforce well-being, and long-term financial sustainability.
This session has been approved for 1.5 CME/CE credits.
Target Audience
This activity is appropriate for the following audiences:
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physicians
- Physician Associates/Assistants
- Social Workers
- Pharmacists
- Dentists
- Other behavioral health providers
- Other members of the care team
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to do the following:
- Calculate a provider-level break-even encounter target from fixed and variable costs, payer mix, and reimbursement rates.
- Evaluate and develop sustainable clinician incentive models that align achievement of organizational productivity and quality metric goals with clinician engagement, retention, and job satisfaction.
- Evaluate the effect of a proposed incentive structure on clinician retention, patient access, and organizational margin.
AMA Designation Statement
Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. designates this Live activity for a maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Activity summary
- 1.50 AAPA Category I CMEThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Academy of PAs (AAPA) credit to physician assistants at its activities. Participants should only claim commensurate credit with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 1.50 ACE/ASWBThrough Joint Accreditation Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) credit to social workers at its activities.
- 1.50 ACPEThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) credit to pharmacists at its activities.
- 1.50 ADA CERPThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.
- 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to physicians at its activities via Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
- 1.50 ANCCThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) nursing credit to nurses at its activities.
- 1.50 Participation Hour(s)You are able to download an unaccredited Participation Certificate for your records if you are not able to use any of the credit types provided for this activity or if this activity does not offer accredited CME/CE credits.
Schedule
October 8, 2026
- Levers that Influence Cost Per Visit (10:15am-11:15am) - 1 credit
- Board Discord: From Conflict to Course Correction (11:30am-12:30pm) - 1 credit
- Creating the Right Incentives (1:45pm-3:15pm) - 1.5 credits
- Innovative Patient Engagement Strategies (3:30pm-4:30pm) - 1 credit
October 9, 2026
- HCC, RAF, and Payment: Using Azara DRVS to Capture What You're Owed (9:30am-10:30am) - 1 credit
- Better Health Outcomes Using a Catalytic Integrated Approach (10:30am-11:00am) - .5 credits
- Artificial Intelligence in FQHC Financial Operations: Practical Applications, Risks, and Strategic Value (11:15am-12:30pm) - 1.25 credits
Weitzman Institute Disclosure Statement
It is the policy of the Weitzman Institute to ensure that Continuing Education (CE) activities are independent and free of commercial bias. To ensure educational content is objective, balanced, and guarantee content presented is in the best interest of its learners' and the public, the Weitzman Institute requires that everyone in a position to control educational content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples can be found at accme.org.
Faculty participating in a Weitzman Institute-sponsored activity must disclose to the planning committee and audience all financial or other relationship(s) with ineligible companies.
Dr. Karen Ashley is the Director of Education for the Weitzman Institute. She oversees all educational programming accredited by the Moses/Weitzman Health System.
Planners & Presenters
- Tracy Blanchard – Executive Assistant to the CEO, MACHC — Planner
- Brian Bailey – Director, Clinically Integrated Network (CIN), MACHC — Planner
- Amy Zarr-McDonagh, MPH – HCCN Executive Director, MACHC — Planner
- Shamonda Braithwaite – Deputy Executive Director, MACHC — Speaker/Planner
- Alli Matson, M.Ed. – Director of Workforce Initiatives, MACHC — Planner
- Brian Danner, MPH – HCCN, Health Analytics Director, MACHC — Planner
- Amalia Rivera Oven – Quality Improvement Manager, MACHC — Speaker/Planner
- Abisola Olabisi – Health Analytics Director, MACHC — Planner
- Delaney McGonegal – Health Policy Director, MACHC — Planner
- Nora Hoban – Chief Executive Director, MACHC — Planner
- Andrea Harris, J.D. – Counsel, Feldesman LLP — Speaker
- Sarah Call, MD, MMM – Chief Medical Officer, Mountain Laurel Medical Center — Speaker
- Michelle Dixon, FNP-C – Chief Executive Officer, Mountain Laurel Medical Center — Speaker
- Leah Hart, DrPH, FNP-C – Medical Director of Population Health, Chase Brexton Health Care — Speaker
- Jennifer Breads, MSN/MPH, RN – Director of Population Health, Chase Brexton Health Care — Speaker
- Yvette Gbemudu, MD, MA – Chief Medical Officer, Henrietta Johnson Medical Center — Speaker
- Marcia Augustine, MD, FAAP, CLC – Chief Medical Officer, Park West Health System — Speaker
- Valerie Lowe – Director of Business Operations — Speaker
- Leah Dafoulas, MPH – Senior Director, Clinical Transformation, Azara Healthcare — Speaker
- Anders Apgar, MD, FACOG – Interim Chief Medical Officer, CCI Health Services — Speaker
- Marvin Onyemaechi – Chief Information Officer — Speaker
- Justin Kensinger, CPA – Partner, Forvis Mazars US — Speaker
There were no relevant financial relationship disclosures made by any presenters or planners for this conference.
Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Mid-Atlantic Association of Community Health Centers and Moses/Weitzman Health System, Inc./Weitzman Institute. Moses/Weitzman Health System, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credential Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
By completing this activity, you provide Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. the permission to share completion data with the ACCME and the certifying board(s).

Please note that continuing education credit requirements differ by state, jurisdiction, and licensing agency. It is your responsibility to confirm if your licensing/credentialing agency will accept the credits offered by this activity.
Available Credit
- 1.50 AAPA Category I CMEThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Academy of PAs (AAPA) credit to physician assistants at its activities. Participants should only claim commensurate credit with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 1.50 ACE/ASWBThrough Joint Accreditation Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) credit to social workers at its activities.
- 1.50 ACPEThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) credit to pharmacists at its activities.
- 1.50 ADA CERPThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.
- 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to physicians at its activities via Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
- 1.50 ANCCThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) nursing credit to nurses at its activities.
- 1.50 Participation Hour(s)You are able to download an unaccredited Participation Certificate for your records if you are not able to use any of the credit types provided for this activity or if this activity does not offer accredited CME/CE credits.
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