In yet another sign that the state is trying to drive down health care costs by bolstering primary care and restructuring how insurers reimburse medical providers, the state health insurance commissioner has announced the overhaul of the office's so-called "affordability standards."
The revised standards require insurers to increase the percentage of their primary care network operating as "patient-centered medical homes" by 5 percentage points in 2016. By 2019, 80 percent of an insurer's primary care clinicians should be practicing in these medical homes.Â
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July 30, 2015
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