2025 Quality Alliance Lunch and Learn: Polypharmacy 20250509

May 9, 2025

Overview

Jennifer Heffernan, MD and Christine Cerone

Target Audience

Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers, Pharmacists, Nurses, and Social Workers. 

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:

  • Discuss the prevalence and significance of polypharmacy in older adults.
  • Select best practice strategies to reduce polypharmacy and promote appropriate prescribing and deprescribing. 
  • Describe the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) polypharmacy quality measures in effect for the 2025 measurement year.
  • Complete a medication review with the goal of reducing polypharmacy and identifying deprescribing opportunities.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.00 ANCC
    Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
  • 1.00 Attendance
  • 1.00 Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners
    This offering is approved for 1.00 CEU. Scott and White provider number CS4934 has been awarded Provider Status by the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners. This approval meets criteria for mandatory continuing education requirements for relicensure as established by the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners.
Course opens: 
05/09/2025
Course expires: 
06/09/2025
Event starts: 
05/09/2025 - 12:00pm CDT
Event ends: 
05/09/2025 - 1:00pm CDT
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Venue

Virtual via Teams
Temple, TX
United States

Faculty

FACULTY DISCLOSURE: Jennifer Heffernan, MD and Christine Cerone have no relevant financial relationship(s) with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

PLANNER DISCLOSURE: The planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation

Accreditation: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing CE: Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Social Work: This program has been screened and determined to be related to the practice of social work to the best of our ability. The Behavioral Health Executive Council will make the final determination as to whether the activity claimed by the licensee is directly related to the practice of social work. 

 

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.00 ANCC
    Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
  • 1.00 Attendance
  • 1.00 Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners
    This offering is approved for 1.00 CEU. Scott and White provider number CS4934 has been awarded Provider Status by the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners. This approval meets criteria for mandatory continuing education requirements for relicensure as established by the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners.

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