2016 Capitol Hill Briefing: PCPCC's Annual Review of the Patient-Centered Medical Home's Impact on Cost and Quality

Tuesday Feb 2, 2016 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm EST

Capitol Visitor Center, Congressional Meeting Room North (268), Capitol Hill

Washington, DC

United States

On February 2, 2016, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative unveiled its highly anticipated new annual patient-centered medical home (PCMH) evidence report at a briefing on Capitol Hill and on its website. As in previous editions, this year's report, "The Patient-Centered Medical Home's Impact on Cost and Quality: Annual Review of Evidence 2014-2015," summarizes PCMH cost and utilization results from peer-reviewed studies, state government evaluations, and industry reports published within the past year. New this year, the report also includes early federal program evaluations published between October 2014 and November 2015.

In the report, we review the recent evidence for PCMH and advanced primary care in light of new and long-awaited developments in health system payment reform, including Medicare’s transition to value-based payments, passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), significant multi-payer and state-level reforms taking place across the United States, and increasing commercial interest and investment in a strong foundation of advanced primary care.

At the Capitol Hill briefing, co-hosted by U.S. Representatives Joe Courtney (D-CT) and David Rouzer (R-NC) who serve as co-chairs of the Congressional Primary Care Caucus, health care policy and industry experts discussed highlights from the report, the latest patient-centered medical home (PCMH) evidence, and innovative payment reform models. They also focused on how to apply the latest evidence to help mold future payment reform efforts.

Order Hard Copies: Tangible copies of the publication are available free for current PCPCC executive members and are $10 each for non-members. Please email Katy Hill if you would like to order hard copies.

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Alissa Fox

Senior Vice President, Office of Policy and Representation, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Alissa Fox is senior vice president of the Office of Policy and Representation for the BlueCross BlueShield Association (BCBSA), a national federation of 37 independent, community-based and locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. The Blue System is the nation's largest health insurer of more than 105 million – one-in-three of all Americans. It is the largest single processor of Medicare claims in the nation, and holds the world's largest privately underwritten health insurance contract – the nearly 5.3-million-member Federal Employee Program® (FEP). read more

Douglas Henley, MD, FAAFP

Executive Vice President & Chief Executive Officer, American Academy of Family Physicians

Douglas Henley, MD, FAAFP is Chair of PCPCC's Board and Executive Vice President and CEO of the American Academy of Family Physicians, which represents more than 120,000 physicians and medical students nationwide. Prior to AAFP, Dr. Henley was in private practice for 20 years in his hometown of Hope Mills, NC. He is a founding member of the Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance Steering Committee and serves on the steering committee of the Center for Payment Reform. Henley served as a commissioner on the American Health Information Community. In this capacity he served as co-chair of the Personalized Healthcare Workgroup. Dr. Henley also was an inaugural commissioner of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology. An AAFP physician member since 1973, Dr. read more

Christopher F. Koller

President, Milbank Memorial Fund

Christopher Koller is president of the Milbank Memorial Fund. The Fund is a 114 year operating foundation that improves population health by connecting leaders with the best information and experience. Before joining the Fund, he served the state of Rhode Island as the country’s first health insurance commissioner, an appointment he held from March of 2005 through June of 2013. Under Mr. Koller’s leadership, the RI Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner was nationally recognized for its rate review process and its efforts to use insurance regulation to promote payment reform, primary care revitalization, and delivery system transformation. The Office was also one of the lead agencies in implementing the Affordable Care Act in Rhode Island. Prior to serving as health insurance commissioner, Mr. read more