CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield's (CareFirst) four-year investment in patient-centered medical home (PCMH) programs operated by 11 safety net health centers helped improve care for more than 68,000 low-income and chronically ill patients...
The CMS is launching what it says is the largest everinitiative to transform the way primary care in America is delivered and reimbursed for more than 25 million patients.
The Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) model is a five-year...
The AAFP is working to make sure CMS keeps family medicine in mind as the agency writes new rules meant to expand the ranks of accountable care organizations (ACOs), which represent one of the more aggressive attempts to improve patient...
The health payer industry and the federal government including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have positioned hospitals, clinics, and medical practices to adopt necessary healthcare payment reform. Alongside...
This guideline provides recommendations for primary care clinicians who are prescribing opioids for chronic pain outside of active cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. The guideline addresses 1) when to initiate or...
CMS Releases Interactive Mapping Medicare Disparities Tool
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) released a new interactive map to increase understanding of geographic disparities in...
MILFORD, Neb. — Susan Kubicka-Welander, a short-order cook, went to her pain checkup appointment straight from the lunch-rush shift. “We were really busy,” she told Dr. Robert L. Wergin, trying to smile through deeply etched lines of...
A Senate committee easily passed a mental health reform bill along with four smaller measures addressing prescription drug abuse Wednesday, but funding for implementing the programs remains elusive. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and...
President Barack Obama has nominated Merrick Garland, chief justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The pick ends weeks of speculation, but marks the beginning of what likely will be...
Health insurance isn’t simple. Neither are government regulations. Put the two together and things can get confusing fast.
So it’s not surprising that federal regulators took a stab at making things a bit more straightforward for...
This month the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) issued an update to their longitudinal study of the impact of patient-centered medical homes on healthcare costs and quality. On February 2nd, they shared the information...
The health care and health policy communities are increasingly calling for “measures that matter.” Journal articles and policy reports have highlighted the proliferation of performance measures, and many conferences have focused on...
High deductibles add to consumers' financial stress and dissuade some patients from getting needed medical care. That is not only worrisome, but it could also block attempts to reform U.S. healthcare, health-policy experts warn in the...
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Patients with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to manage their health conditions are sometimes referred to as “activated.” Health care systems can use patient activation scores to help predict use of costly services,...
A patient-centered medical home model that offers financial incentives but wields no penalties has proved popular with physicians, an insurance executive told the AAFP Board of Directors here last week.
Chet Burrell, president and CEO of...
On March 1, 2016 the PCPCC responded to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) request for stakeholder input on the Quality Measure Development Plan.
Overall, PCPCC supports the general framework for the Quality Measurement...
By Todd Neff
For UCHealth
The results are in from a pioneering five-year, $3.9 million experiment to see how eight primary care practices and three mental health centers across Colorado might integrate behavioral health and primary care....
We’re all frustrated by the high cost of US health care and a system that’s challenging for patients to navigate and does not consider patients’ goals and wishes. Both the public and private sectors are working hard to discover ways to...
Concierge medicine programs may take up to three years to show ROI, a common break-even point for population health management strategies.
There is ample industry evidence to show that a comprehensive population health management program...
The Obama administration and health insurers took a step Tuesday toward standardizing and improving the measures that are intended to gauge the quality of healthcare but are widely criticized as too burdensome for providers and too...
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