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April 9, 2018 | PCPCC Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC – The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), a leading primary care advocacy organization, today announced that Bill Kramer, the Executive Director for National Health Policy at the Pacific Business Group on...
October 11, 2017 | PCPCC Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, at its Annual Fall Conference, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) released a comprehensive set of Shared Principles of Primary Care that is supported by 233 organizations representing diverse...
August 16, 2017 | Modern Healthcare
The Trump administration's moves to cancel two mandatory bundled payment models and scale back on another means the CMS has to work hard to push providers into value-based care, experts say.
July 25, 2017 | AAFP News
Dozens of articles each year evaluate progress of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), but a new report takes a broader view to examine how elements of the model in both medical home and nonmedical home practices affect cost, quality...
July 12, 2017 | Healthcare Finance News
New evidence shows a link between patient-centered medical homes and improved quality at a lower cost -- provided there's an adequate investment in primary care, and strong collaboration between the payer and provider.
Released this week...
July 11, 2017 | Fierce Healthcare
Reviews of patient-centered medical homes suggest that they lead to lower costs and improved care quality, but a significant investment in primary care and strong payer-provider collaboration is key to success.
The Patient-Centered...
September 21, 2016 | Health Payer Intelligence
Transitioning to value-based care reimbursement and managing accountable care organizations (ACOs) comes fraught with specific challenges. Both reports from healthcare organizations and interviews with experts who’ve implemented ACOs tend...
June 9, 2016 | Primary Care Progress
Ridie Ghezzi was dealing with depression. Her doctor tried her on one medication, then another, then changed her dose, but it just wasn’t working for her. So she called Amanda Rice, the behavioral health specialist at Dartmouth Health...
June 7, 2016 | Health IT Analytics
As the healthcare industry moves away from traditional fee-for-service reimbursements towards a new era of accountable, cost-conscious, coordinated care, healthcare organizations are actively seeking new patient management strategies to...
June 2, 2016 | HealthIT Analytics
The debate over the true value of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) continues with a new study by Geisinger Health System, which indicates that the comprehensive care framework may be able to reduce the total costs of patient care...
May 27, 2016 | The Commonwealth Fund
Marty Levine, MD, of Shoreline, Washington, doesn’t practice medicine in the same way that most primary care physicians do today. He hasn’t worried about billing anyone for two years. He takes his time with each patient, often lingering...
May 23, 2016 | Diagnostic Imaging
May 23, 2016 | Healthcare Reform
By David Raths
CMS has long maintained that primary care is central to the transformation it is seeking to bring to the nation’s health system. Showing the strength of that conviction, in April the agency...
May 17, 2016 | Oliver Wyman Health
Population Health is the latest topic talked about in every innovation and investor setting, yet it has been in the making for decades. Frameworks have been made publically available for years by thought leadership groups such as the ...
May 17, 2016 | AAPC
The medical home has become a widely accepted model for how primary care should be organized and delivered throughout the healthcare system. It is a place where patients are treated with respect and dignity, to enable strong and trusting...
May 2, 2016 | American Psychological Association
A new review of the evidence suggests that patient-centered medical homes can reduce unnecessary use of health-care services and thus health-care costs.
Conducted by the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, a nonprofit membership...
April 20, 2016 | Computer World
The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced a bold move to accelerate the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) program, news that I have been waiting on for a long time.
To provide a bit of background, CPC is a...
April 18, 2016 | HealthIT Analytics
A new survey published this month in the American Journal of Managed Care found that providers who had adopted EHRs in 2012 were significantly more likely than non-users to engage in population health management, patient communication, and...
April 12, 2016 | HealthIT Analytics
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) model, a new multi-payer patient-centered primary care model which aims to allow providers to deliver flexible, individualized...
April 12, 2016 | Politico
Six years after President Obama’s health reforms became law, officials in his administration told POLITICO they are launching the largest-ever initiative to transform primary care in America, an effort to give doctors more flexibility and...
April 12, 2016 | Governing Magazine
More than six years after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was first signed into law, President Barack Obama on Monday announced plans to address what many had hoped the act would do all along: move the nation's health-care system away from a...
