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January 15, 2014 | Fierce Healthcare
A patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model resulted in reduced costs of care, unnecessary emergency room (ER) and hospital visits, and improved population health, according to a research report by the Patient-Centered Primary Care...
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January 15, 2014 | Health Leaders Media
Forgive me for preaching to the choir, but another round-up of studies released this week re-confirms what we already know: Patient-centered medical homes improve health outcomes and reduce costs. In fact, the question is no longer "will...
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January 15, 2014 | Medical Economics
As more primary care practices look to adopt the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, a new report shows that it may be effective in reducing the cost of care and the number of visits patients make to the Emergency Department (ED...
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January 14, 2014 | The Boston Globe
The waiting room is full, as it is most mornings at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program’s main facility on Albany Street in the South End. The patient, an older-looking man with a baseball hat tugged down hard on his head, walks up...
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January 13, 2014 | PCPCC Press Release
Embargoed Until Monday, January 13th, 4PM PCPCC: Michelle Shaljian, 347-754-1692, michelle@pcpcc.net Milbank: Tara Strome, 212-355-8400, tstrome@milbank.org New Report Finds Medical Homes Are Reducing Health Care Costs, Utilization, and...
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December 26, 2013 | Portland Business Journal
Some medical practices around Portland have earned a special designation. And while patients may not be aware that their doctor’s office is actually a Patient Centered Primary Care Home, they may notice extra efforts being made to reach...
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December 24, 2013 | The Clinical Advisor
A significant majority of patients report experiencing a high quality of care at federally-supported health centers with patient-centered medical home (PCMH) attributes, study findings indicate. "PCMH attributes related to access to care...
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December 18, 2013 | Statesman Journal
Most Oregonians recently secured access to a new, innovative way of receiving health care, and this little-known success had nothing to do with insurance exchanges or websites. Nearly all Oregon insurers just agreed to begin paying for...
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December 18, 2013 | PR Web
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey announced today that it is launching a new, family-focused program to improve the health of children. This is Horizon BCBSNJ’s first patient-centered program dedicated to pediatric care....
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December 16, 2013 | Modern Healthcare
The proposals to scrap Medicare's sustainable growth-rate formula for updating physician pay include less-noticed provisions rewarding practices that operate as a patient-centered medical home. There is a twist, however. The medical home...
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December 12, 2013
Background: There is growing evidence that practice-based care management can improve clinical quality and reduce costly healthcare utilization. Objectives: To explore how a disparate group of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs)...
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December 10, 2013 | PCPCC Press Release
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) launched a free online database that identifies innovative primary care workforce training programs throughout the U.S. It focuses specifically on programs...
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December 5, 2013 | PR Web
New results show that Monmouth County public employees are benefitting from a new wellness initiative designed by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. County employees who used physicians in Horizon BCBSNJ’s Patient-Centered...
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December 5, 2013 | Business Wire
Anthem Blue Cross and its Accountable Care Organization (ACO) partners showed across the board improvements in the treatment of patients in 2012, the first full year of Anthem’s program, including a 35 percent increase in the number of...
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November 23, 2013 | LaCrosse Tribune
Julie Burke is a busy mother of three boys who has better things to do than sit in a doctor’s office waiting for an appointment. That’s why the Sparta woman has been happy to participate in a two-year pilot program at the Sparta Clinic of...
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November 17, 2013 | NPR
As I walk to the door of my patient's house on a dirt road outside Tuscaloosa, Ala., I step gingerly. Mrs. Edgars says that she killed a rattlesnake in her flower bed last year. She is at the door, expecting my visit. Mr. Edgars sits on...
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November 14, 2013 | Readmissions News
Q. How big an impact will the continuing growth in medical homes and ACOs have on the reduction in preventable readmissions?  “If we recognize that avoidable readmissions are the ultimate stamp of a fragmented health care system, then the...
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November 14, 2013 | FierceHealthIT
A new Standards & Interoperability Framework initiative launched today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT aims to create a common technical standard to allow prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) to share...
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November 13, 2013 | Portland Business Journal
A Portland doctor has a theory about what lies behind the strides being made in care delivery for Oregon’s Medicaid population. We reported last week that the Oregon Health Authority issued a report on the state’s 16 Coordinated Care...
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November 12, 2013
Statement Attributable to: Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH Chief Executive Officer, Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative Dear Members of the Senate Finance/House Ways and Means Committee: As a large and diverse stakeholder group, we...
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