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Q. How big an impact will the continuing growth in medical homes and ACOs have on the reduction in preventable readmissions?  “If we recognize that avoidable readmissions are the ultimate stamp of a fragmented health care system, then the...
A new Standards & Interoperability Framework initiative launched today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT aims to create a common technical standard to allow prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) to share...
A Portland doctor has a theory about what lies behind the strides being made in care delivery for Oregon’s Medicaid population. We reported last week that the Oregon Health Authority issued a report on the state’s 16 Coordinated Care...
Statement Attributable to: Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH Chief Executive Officer, Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative Dear Members of the Senate Finance/House Ways and Means Committee: As a large and diverse stakeholder group, we...
You've heard the grim prognosis many times before. Unless immediate action is taken, the U.S. supply of doctors will be 91,500 short of the number needed by 2020 and 130,600 physicians short by 2025, according to an Association of American...
Family physicians in the throes of creating patient-centered medical home (PCMH) practices, learning about medical neighborhoods, and gaining full functionality of their electronic health records (EHRs) may appreciate a new report that...
Colorado's experiment with accountable care in Medicaid has led to a second year of savings, and other states are taking note. Colorado Medicaid achieved $44 million in gross savings or “cost avoidance” in its accountable care...
Synopsis Health information technology and electronic health applications will likely change the shape of the health care workforce, by raising efficiency; allowing more patient care to be provided by physician assistants and nurse...
The Democratic and Republican leaders of two key congressional committees have agreed on a framework to scrap the problematic Medicare payment formula for physicians and replace it with one that would link physician reimbursement to the...
Background  The Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula – the mechanism that ties physician payment updates to the relationship between overall fee schedule spending and growth in gross domestic product (GDP) – is fundamentally broken....
Over the past few years, we have seen increasing interest in a new area of psychiatry called “integrated care” or “collaborative care,” and today I have the privilege of writing the first in what will become a monthly Psychiatric News ...
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) today announced the names of 70 new members and 10 foreign associates during its 43rd annual meeting.  Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and...
As regulators and health policy experts try to determine the effectiveness of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs), one evaluator says they shouldn't all be judged by the same measuring stick. Instead, those questioning the cost and...
Health IT offers the opportunity to expand upon the patient-centered medical home, according to a report from the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative. Though many providers are working closely with other medical providers, they...
Although Medicare's proposed complex care management billing code might seem like a help to patient-centered medical homes (PCMH), not all PCMH supporters like the idea. Medicare -- the country's largest healthcare payer -- should move...
(Washington, DC) – In response to increasing collaborations among traditional medical providers and community organizations, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) released a new report to support primary care clinicians...
While the patient-centered medical home has been touted as the foundation for a better coordinated and more efficient healthcare system, experts now say medical home practices need to be connected to other parts of the healthcare system....
October 7, 2013 (Washington, DC)  - The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) will host its Annual Conference on October 13 – 15 in Bethesda, MD, including over a dozen panels and workshops that emphasize the role of primary...
With one in five South Carolinians medically uninsured, the launching of the “Healthy Outcome Plans” by hospitals throughout the state recently appears to be the proverbial drop in the bucket. The plans, done at the request of the state...
Many healthcare providers and payers are moving forward with patient-centered medical homes to improve primary care and care coordination and reduce costs, despite mixed research evidence of the cost-effectiveness of this major delivery...

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