The Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Purchaser's Guide

Understanding the Model and Taking Action

The need to tame health care costs, while improving quality in the employer and purchaser settings has become an imperative for businesses, consumer groups, and municipalities throughout the United States. It is now clearer than ever that the only way to address the ills that afflict our U.S. health care system is through truly transformative change in health care financing and delivery.

This Purchaser guide provides an overview of the medical home’s role and value in building a model health benefits program. The guide also provides supplemental resources, including detailed case study descriptions, and in the appendices, additional information regarding current and forthcoming pilots, and draft RFI and contract language for purchasers.

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