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September 25, 2013 | Medical Economics
The entire healthcare community is looking for ways to reduce costs and confusion, while yielding better patient outcomes. New reimbursement models being tested by Medicare, private payers and think tanks aim to consider all the entities...
September 24, 2013 | Fierce PracticeManagement
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) continues to help healthcare organizations achieve lower costs and better care, as well as improve physician and staff morale. With such potential benefits, FiercePracticeManagement reached out to...
September 11, 2013 | MedPage Today
The use of electronic health records has the capacity to cut down on the number of emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations, and also to improve early diagnosis in primary care, two studies suggested.
In one U.S. study of...
September 6, 2013 | U.S. News & World Report
After returning from a Nevada hiking trip in June, Catherine Helling, 45, of Dubuque, Iowa, landed in the hospital for cellulitis, a dangerous skin infection. Early into Helling's six-day stay, her internist visited, coordinated Helling's...
August 28, 2013 | Kaiser Health News
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) may actually be the unicorns we’ve been waiting for, spreading their cost-saving magic throughout the health system.
An early cost-sharing program in Massachusetts designed to cut costs for private...
August 22, 2013 | Real World Health Care
The word “home” has many connotations: the building in which you live, the place you come from, and even the end point of a game. Now, there is a new type of home: The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH).
PCMH is a model of primary care...
August 11, 2013 | Modern Healthcare
David Share, M.D., senior vice president of value partnerships with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, has been shepherding the Blues' patient-centered medical home project during the five years of its existence.
With more than 3,017...
August 6, 2013 | Fierce Healthcare
A new Health Affairs study reveals patients who received transitional care were 20 percent less likely to experience a readmission in the first year following hospital discharge than clinically similar patients who received standard care...
August 1, 2013 | PCPCC Press Release
Statement Attributable to:
Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH
Chief Executive Officer
Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
AUGUST 1, 2013 – (Washington, DC) – On behalf of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), we...
July 25, 2013
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July 23, 2013 | PCPCC Press Release
JULY 23, 2013 - (Washington, DC) - PCPCC has announced four new members will join its Board of Directors, including Elizabeth J. Fowler, VP of Global Health Policy, Johnson & Johnson; Jill Hummel, Vice President of Payment Innovation,...
July 23, 2013 | Independence Blue Cross
Independence Blue Cross (IBC) announces the results of a series of three-year studies that demonstrate significant reductions in medical costs for patients with chronic conditions treated in primary care practices that have transformed...
July 22, 2013 | PCPCC Press Release
Statement Attributable to:
Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH
Chief Executive Officer
Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
JULY 22, 2013 – (Washington, DC) – On behalf of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), we applaud the...
July 18, 2013 | PCPCC Press Release
In a July 18 letter to Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus, D-MT, and ranking member Orrin Hatch, R-UT, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) urges Congress to support public policies that shift the current fee-for-...
July 15, 2013 | Modern Healthcare
'The right direction' : Primary-care docs see promise in CMS' proposed pay for non face-to-face work
Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions generate a set fee for each visit to the Center for Primary Care in Augusta, Ga. Yet that visit will generate numerous tasks—including making referrals to calling in prescriptions to answering...
July 10, 2013 | Medical Economics
Primary care physicians (PCPs) should soon see their Medicaid reimbursements rise to the level of those paid by Medicare —if they haven’t already. The fee parity, funding for which was included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), became...
July 10, 2013
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model is being implemented by a growing number of health organizations, with the goal of providing more comprehensive, coordinated, and patient-centered care. The major primary care medical...
July 10, 2013 | HIT Consultant
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan saved an estimated $155 million in preventative claim costs over the first three years of its Patient Centered Medical Home program, according to analysis published in the Health Services Research Journal...
June 17, 2013
Dr. Richard Baron
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) announced that Richard J. Baron, MD will receive the group’s prestigious Barbara Starfield Awardduring their Annual Fall Conference in...
June 17, 2013 | AAFP News
According to presenters at a June 6 policy summit(fora.tv) on health care innovation here, the lower health care costs the United States is experiencing may be due, in part, to the growing use of innovative payment and delivery models of...
