Opportunity for CVAHP Reinstatement

In 2020, nationally, many businesses, including CVAHP Testing locations, closed. At the same time, Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals scrambled to identify clinically acceptable PPE supplies, worked extended hours to scour for supplies and worked from remote locations. The AHVAP Board approved a three-month grace period proposed by the CVAHP Committee for certifications that expired during April, May and June, and everyone looked forward to “when everything returned to normal.”

In October, 2021, we are still waiting for “everything to return to normal.” Many of you have developed new business connections and practices that have expedited approvals for clinically acceptable alternatives and healthcare leaders have a better appreciation for and understanding of healthcare value analysis, but Value Analysis Professionals continue to face sometimes overwhelming pressures.

Reinstatement of CVAHP certification for 2020-2021

The AHVAP Board recently approved the CVAHP Committee’s proposal for terms of reinstatement for certifications that expired in 2020 and 2021. This offer will be in effect through the end of 2021. Certification is an important recognition of knowledge, skill and expertise. Sometimes failure to renew may be related to a job change, but during 2020 and 2021, it may simply have been the result of overwhelming work pressures and not enough hours in the day to attend to the renewal process.

An email describing the opportunity for reinstatement has been sent to all who failed to renew in 2020 and through the end of the year 2021, providing contact information was current. If you did not receive notice and need additional information, email Beth Potter, CVAHP Committee Chair, at pottermama@gmail.com.

Things likely won’t return to “the way they were,” but healthcare value analysis professionals are in a unique position to educate peers and revise practices to “make things better than they were.”