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September 16, 2014 | Medscape
The patient-centered medical home is ideal for babies discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), say those in charge of neonatal care at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City. "It fits this population very well,...
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September 16, 2014 | FierceHealthPayer
Aetna and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association are joining forces with some of the biggest companies to urge the entire business community to embrace wellness programs as a way to lower healthcare costs and boost employee health. In...
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September 15, 2014 | Greenville Online
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina has partnered with a variety of of public and private groups to promote the idea of patient-centered medical homes in the hopes of improving health and saving money. In addition to BlueCross, the...
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September 12, 2014 | US Department of Health and Human Services
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today $295 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 1,195 health centers in every U.S. State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Pacific...
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September 11, 2014 | Healthcare Finance News
Weill Cornell Physicians, Cornell University’s physician group, has inked a new accountable care agreement with Aetna, intended to enhance care for approximately 9,000 of the insurer's commercial and Medicare members in New York. “This...
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September 11, 2014 | MedTech Boston
Are we Clueless, and has Cher Horowitz finally found her Tai Frasier? Are primary care providers the cool kids now? According to Dr. Marci Nielsen, Chief Executive Officer of the Washington, DC-based Patient-Centered Primary Care...
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September 8, 2014 | PR Newswire
Addressing the need for improved coordinated care in healthcare delivery systems, the 1199SEIU Training and Employment Funds and the Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC) today released the "Care Coordination Fundamentals" course for...
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September 7, 2014 | The Motley Fool
The movement away from fee-for-service medicine toward accountable care in Medicare may get a boost from fresh numbers from the Congressional Budget Office showing spending on the health insurance program for the elderly slowing...
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September 5, 2014 | FierceHealthIT
Coordinated care and mHealth technologies are key to reducing disparities in care for vulnerable populations, according to an article at Health Affairs. Research on improving care tends to be narrowly focused and take too long to bring...
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September 4, 2014 | Health Affairs Blog
Health Equity and the Patient-Centered Medical Home The Institute of Medicine (IOM) set forth goals for care coordination in their report “Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System For The 21st Century,” and established guidelines...
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September 3, 2014 | Globe Newswire
A study authored by Independence Blue Cross (Independence) and CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services (CTI) demonstrating fewer emergency department visits for chronically ill patients cared for in a patient-centered medical home has...
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August 31, 2014 | The Blade
Most agree that the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, has fundamentally changed the health insurance landscape in the United States, but the health-care law is also quietly causing a sea change in the way hospitals and...
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August 28, 2014 | Portland Tribune
You know the painstaking chore of taking your child to the doctor, or even just making it there yourself? Your days are already filled with spreadsheets and spilled coffee, muddy paw prints and picking up kids from soccer practice. Doctors...
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August 28, 2014 | Ohio Department of Health
The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) announced today that Ohio now has more than 500 nationally recognized patient-centered medical home (PCMH) practices delivering primary health care services across the state. The PCMH care model is one...
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August 27, 2014
August 27, 2014 Hon. Patty Murray    Hon. Sherrod Brown  United States Senate    United States Senate  154 Russell Senate Office Building    713 Hart Senate Office Building  Washington, D.C. 20510    Washington, D.C. 20510 RE: Ensuring...
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August 26, 2014 | US Department of Health and Human Services
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell today announced $35.7 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 147 health centers in 44 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to support patient-centered medical homes...
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August 26, 2014 | Modern Healthcare
The CMS and Oregon are stepping back from an apparent clash over how the state is paying the managed-care organizations serving Medicaid beneficiaries in its nationally watched Medicaid demonstration. State officials and leaders of Oregon'...
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August 26, 2014 | University of California, San Francisco
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, primary care has been receiving a lot more scrutiny. In many cases across the nation, the health care system hasn’t been providing the most effective or efficient care.  “We’ve had to do a bit...
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August 25, 2014 | OncLive
In 2012, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) sought to support oncologists in addressing what CMMI considered to be among the failings in cancer care— namely, fragmented care, suboptimal outcomes, high costs,...
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August 20, 2014 | Politico
It was late in the afternoon on a warm Friday in early fall and Doug Sumrell was mowing the lawn outside his suburban home in Evans, Georgia. As he pushed the mower across the yard, Sumrell began to feel faint — his chest tightened and the...
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