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February 2, 2016 | The Milbank Memorial Fund
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) has released a new evidence report that looks at the effectiveness of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH). Published with support from the Milbank Memorial Fund, the fifth annual...
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February 2, 2016 | American Psychological Association
WASHINGTON — The following is a statement from W. Douglas Tynan, PhD, director of integrated health care with the American Psychological Association, regarding the annual report of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, released...
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February 1, 2016 | The Advocate
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana’s Quality Blue program will be featured at a Capitol Hill briefing Tuesday as a best practice for getting better-quality health care at a more affordable price. The program will be included in the...
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January 26, 2016 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
On January 26th, 2016, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative responded to the Senate Finance Committee's Bipartisan Chronic Care Working Group Policy Options Document, which requested stakeholder input on various policy proposals...
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January 15, 2016 | HealthIT Analytics
The healthcare industry operates in a unique economic niche where the “what you see is what you get” principle that governs most other consumer interactions only vaguely applies.  Patients often walk into the consult room with absolutely...
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January 11, 2016
Are the potential savings and patient care benefits of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) worth the costs?  RAND Corporation is weighing in on the eternal debate over the benefits and drawbacks of implementing the innovative care...
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January 7, 2016 | Managed Healthcare Executive
A new initiative from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan aims to create an environment where pharmacists from otherwise competing physician organizations and practice units have a non-competitive forum to collaborate on best practices and...
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January 5, 2016 | AAFP News
Family physicians can tell story after story to illustrate why primary care is the most important part of a well-designed health care system, and thanks to the three-year Health is Primary campaign that Family Medicine for America's Health...
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January 4, 2016 | Vermont Public Radio
Lawmakers and administration officials abandoned their push for a single-payer health care system over a year ago. Advocates of a publicly funded program haven’t given up on the concept, however, and a new report could re-ignite a debate...
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January 4, 2016 | Modern Healthcare
The CMS has formally signed off on California's $6.2 billion Medicaid waiver, along with its decision to renew extra funding that supports the state's public safety net hospitals for just one year instead of five.  The CMS announced its...
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December 30, 2015 | Health Affairs Blog
With the upcoming Presidential election, health care is once again keeping us up at night. How much of the current debate is hyperbolic rhetoric? What policy changes are realistic in an election year? What market trends in the private...
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December 29, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
A California state law that takes effect in the new year aims to help hospital patients better transition home with the aid of informed family members and friends, a move that could improve quality of care, prevent readmissions and cut...
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December 24, 2015 | AAFP News
The AAFP has thrown its support behind a new model for delivering preventive oral health care as a component of routine medical care and enhancing partnerships between primary care and dentistry. The model, dubbed the Oral Health Delivery...
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December 22, 2015 | Health IT Analytics
CMS is bringing the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) one step closer to its 2019 implementation date by providing the industry with a timeline for the development of quality metrics and other measures that will gauge provider...
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December 21, 2015 | Advance Healthcare Network
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has defined "providers" as physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.1 To be consistent with this definition, The Joint Commission recently approved several revisions to...
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December 21, 2015 | HealthIT Analytics
The patient-centered medical home providers a robust framework for the advanced care coordination required to make an accountable care organization successful. Care management is the key to ACO success, but many healthcare organizations...
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December 17, 2015 | The Commonwealth Fund
Community health workers who help patients navigate the health care system and work to address their social and economic needs have rarely been fully integrated into care teams. This issue reports on health care organizations that have...
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December 16, 2015 | AAFP News
CMS must do more to improve the accuracy of Medicare physician payments.  That was the urgent message delivered via a Dec. 16 letter(2 page PDF) from AAFP Board Chair Robert Wergin, M.D., of Milford, Neb., to CMS Acting Administrator Andy...
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December 15, 2015 | Medscape
Children in the Medicaid population who receive consistent primary care over the course of more than 2 years in an accountable care organization (ACO) are less likely to require inpatient care than those without continuous involvement in a...
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December 15, 2015 | The Robert Graham Center
One in five Americans reports no usual source of health care, and the number of Americans reporting that they have a personal relationship with a usual source of care has declined steadily over the past 15 years. Given the positive...
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