Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is designating 1,551 primary care practices across Michigan as “patient-centered medical homes,” a nine percent increase over the number of practices designated in 2014. Located in 78 Michigan counties and including more than 4,340 individual physicians, the number of designated practices make the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan-led program the largest of its kind in the United States for the seventh consecutive year.
The Minnesota Department of Human Services’ innovative Medicaid reform initiative, the Integrated Health Partnerships (IHP), delivered a dramatic $61.5 million in savings in 2014, benefiting taxpayers while continuing to improve health care for low-income people.
On Friday, Commissioner Lucinda Jesson announced plans to extend the IHP and comparable value-based reforms to half of all Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare enrollees – about 500,000 people – by the end of 2018.
This year’s Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) Annual Review of the Evidence summarizes new results from primary care patient-centered medical home (PCMH) initiatives published from September 2013 through November 2014 (since the publication of the previous Annual Review). Selected cost and utilization outcomes from a combination of peer-reviewed studies, state program evaluations, and industry publications are aggregated to present an overview of PCMH and primary care innovations happening across the country.
Anthem Blue Cross (Anthem) announced today its Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) under its Enhanced Personal Health Care Program, which targets PPO members with two or more chronic conditions to improve their overall health through enhanced care coordination, saved $7.9 million by improving total population health.
An innovative move to improve access to primary care services for nearly 9,000 Commonwealth of Kentucky employees is paying real dividends. The state has realized significant cost savings and created a more effective system of healthcare.
In 2011, the Commonwealth of Kentucky brought in Nashville-based H2U Wellness Centers LLC, to manage four health centers in Frankfort: Capitol Annex, Capital Plaza Tower, the Transportation Cabinet and the Cabinet for Health, and Family Services Building.
Medical practices in Connecticut that participate in the Cigna Collaborative Care initiative are having success improving quality and lowering medical costs, which is what the program was designed to do. Cigna Collaborative Care is the company’s approach to accomplishing the same population health goal
PURPOSE Comprehensiveness is lauded as 1 of the 5 core virtues of primary care, but its relationship with outcomes is unclear. We measured associations between variations in comprehensiveness of practice among family physicians and healthcare utilization and costs for their Medicare beneficiaries.
Importance The Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model aims to drive health care organizations to reduce expenditures while improving quality for fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare beneficiaries.
Objective To determine whether FFS beneficiaries aligned with Pioneer ACOs had smaller increases in spending and utilization than other FFS beneficiaries while retaining similar levels of care satisfaction in the first 2 years of the Pioneer ACO Model.
Brown & Toland Physicians has produced excellent second-year results in affordability with a market-leading medical cost trend that was 5.4 percent lower than the local San Francisco Bay Area market.
