Talk Payment Reform in June with Brookings, AHRQ & Annals Experts

 
"Payment reform is a cornerstone principle of the
patient-centered medical home." 
- Bitton et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2010

Lessons from the Field:
Webinars & Success Stories

This month's webinars will focus on the critical elements of medical home transformation, and attributes of high-performing primary practices. Further discussions will highlight the role of payment reform in supporting medical home transformation, and the need to incentivize strategies such as care coordination, non face-to-face visits, care team models, and disease management.

Change Agents in Action: Lessons Learned from Leading Primary Care Facilitation Programs
Registration required.
Thursday, June 6th  l  Noon - 1:30 PM ET
PCPCC's webinar will feature AHRQ's Dr. David Meyers, and experts from Vermont Blueprint for Health and North Carolina AHEC, to discuss best practices and lessons learned in primary care transformation.

In Search of Joy in Practice: Innovations from 23 High Functioning Primary Care Practices
Registration required.
Friday, June 28th  l  Noon - 1:30 PM ET
Based on their research published in the Annals of Family Medicine, Drs. Christine and Thomas Sinsky will discuss innovations that can increase physician’s work-life satisfaction, attract future physicians to the field, and improve the quality of patient care.
Dialoguing with the Experts:
Upcoming Member Briefings

June Executive Committee Monthly Update
*Executive committee members only
Tues. June 25th
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Dr. Len Nichols, Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics at George Mason University will provide a member-only briefing on the politics and policy of primary care payment reform.


Monthly National Briefing – The Future of Physician Payment Reform
Thursday, June 27th
11:00 AM - Noon ET

This month we'll reveal the PCPCC's organizational Strategic Plan, and upcoming projects and activities for the Stakeholder Centers. In addition, Dr. Kavita Patel from The Brookings Institution will discuss the several proposals aimed to reform physician payment, including the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform's recent report. 
In Case You Missed It...

Meeting Patients Where They Are: A Medical Home Model for High-Risk Patients (May 16): This webinar highlighted a medical home model that uses advanced health IT to provide team-based primary care for over 3,000 high-risk, elderly patients in assisted living and group home facilities.

May National Briefing: Making the Case for Health IT (May 30) Dr. Art Kellermann of the RAND Corporation and Spencer Jones of Vanguard Health discussed findings from their January 2013 Health Affairs article "What It Will Take to Achieve the As-Yet-Unfulfilled Promises of Health IT" (Listen to audio recording).
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