Caregivers as Partners in Care Teams (CAP-CT)
Grantee: The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco
Partners: University of California, Irvine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, The Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF, The Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Archstone Foundation, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Strategy Goal 2: Advance partnerships and engagement with family caregivers
Project period: Sept. 30, 2023-Sept. 29, 2027
CAP-CT is a national program that provides health care teams with skills and confidence to include family caregivers in a care recipient’s health journey. Through training and practical resources, health care teams can learn to identify, engage, and support caregivers, ultimately improving the quality of care and support.
In addition to producing actionable resources to help foster collaboration between health care teams and family caregivers, this project will establish an outreach strategy in collaboration with various national organizations, partners, and hospital associations. It will also host focus groups and facilitate learning collaborative meetings to support the aging network and partners.
These collective efforts seek to raise awareness about the support provided by millions of family caregivers and address the skills caregivers and health care providers report as lacking or inconsistent in identifying, engaging, and supporting caregivers.
A growing library of CAP-CT trainings emphasize effective communication and system-wide strategies designed to enhance care recipient health and well-being by actively engaging caregivers. Courses are available online and as live trainings and are eligible for free continuing education and continuing medical education credits.
To access the trainings, please visit CAP-CT’s website.
Resources
CAP-CT Identifying Caregivers Tool: Provides simple prompts to identify a care recipient's caregiving team.
Medicare Fee-for-Service Billing Guides
These billing guides are designed for health care providers, care managers, caregiver support programs, and organizations looking to understand how to bill Medicare for caregiver‑related services:
- Billing Guide for Medicare Fee-for-Service Caregiver Training Services (CTS) and Caregiver Health Risk Assessment (CHRA) Codes: This guide explains how Medicare reimbursement works for caregiver training and caregiver health risk assessments. CTS and CHRA codes allow health care professionals to bill for the time spent training caregivers and assessing their needs.
- Billing Guide for Medicare Fee-for-Service Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN): This guide outlines how health care professionals can bill Medicare for services that address social and economic factors affecting a patient’s health. HRSN codes allow health care professionals to bill for addressing upstream drivers (social and economic factors) that affect the patient’s health, which caregivers are often responsible for managing.