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HUNTINGTON - Getting the right care to the right patient at the right time. It's the goal of all health care providers, but some medical professionals believe they have found a way to help achieve it in a more efficient way. It's a model...
In the past five years, more and more businesses have been investing in their own in-house medical centers, hoping to save on employer-provided health insurance by keeping their workers out of emergency rooms. One such company is Maryland...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is seeking public comment on its advanced primary care models intended to provide better care coordination, more personalized attention, and better overall population health management ...
Time will tell, but it appears that employers are not giving up on providing health insurance to their employees — even with the availability of health care exchanges. That’s at least what the results of a new study sponsored by the...
When Andrew Morris-Singer was in his fourth year of medical school his mother's lungs stopped working. She was put into a medically induced coma because of an atypical pneumonia, a condition that he said would likely have been caught if...
A Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative analysis of the effectiveness of primary care patient-centered medical homes reveals the PCMH movement results in lower costs and decreased utilization. The report, "The Patient-Centered...
Rahul Rajkumar, M.D., J.D., received a call one Friday evening from a family member who said she was taking medication for a urinary tract infection and had a fever of 103 degrees. Rajkumar, a primary care physician and acting deputy...
As a child growing up in Minnesota, Foua Khang helped her immigrant parents and grandparents cope in a place where few people spoke their native Hmong language.  Now, as a community health worker employed by St. Paul-based HealthEast Care...
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is an effective way to reduce healthcare spending while raising quality indicators, says the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) in a new report.  The organization’s annual review of...
Dive Brief: A new report from the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative reveals that patient-centered medical homes can reduce healthcare costs as well as curb overuse of the emergency department and overall inpatient...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Caroline DeLaney Jan. 30, 2015 EST caroline@pcpcc.org | (352) 258-0090   New Report Finds Patient-Centered Medical Homes Improve Care, Reduce Costs Industry experts discuss findings from a new PCPCC...
Medical homes are a simple, compelling idea: Give primary-care doctors resources to reduce preventable medical crises for diabetics, asthmatics and others with chronic illness — reducing hospital visits, improving lives and saving money....
The evidence is clear that the use of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) can reduce healthcare costs, overuse of the emergency department and overall inpatient hospitalizations, according to a new, comprehensive report from the Patient...
New Jersey is among seven states nationwide in which Medicare is partnering with health insurance companies in a unique, four-year pilot program aimed at improving the delivery of primary medical care in America. And it's starting to show...
The CMS Innovation Center’s massive Comprehensive Primary Care initiativeappeared to break even its first year, but there is concern that a planned reduction in its care-management fee this year could impede the fragile momentum it has...
As healthcare reform takes hold across the nation, primary care physicians are preparing for the shift to value-based payment by including risk-adjusted base payment in their payment models. Among other goals, these models aim to cover the...
U.S. hospitals continued to see downward trends in hospital utilization in 2013, and many of them adopted new models of coordinated care that might accommodate the flow of patients to outpatient-care settings.  The American Hospital...
Two population health management initiatives that focus on increasing the use of primary care providers have reaped significant results for patients, says CMS Deputy Administrator and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Patrick Conway.  The...
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) applauds the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) goal for 30 percent of Medicare payments to be in alternative payment models by the end of 2016 and 50 percent by the...
HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell today signaled a seismic leap — at least symbolically — away from traditional fee-for-service health care. In a blog posting, the secretary set an ambitious goal of having 30 percent of traditional Medicare...

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