Research

Annals of Emergency Medicine - March 2015
Study objective Patient-centered medical homes are primary care practices that focus on coordinating acute and preventive care. Such practices can...
March 2015
In an effort to create a high-quality health care system in the United States, many payers, providers, delivery systems, and other organizations are...
American Journal of Managed Care - March 2015
ABSTRACT Objectives: In 2010, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) began national implementation of its patient-centered medical home (PCMH)...
American Journal of Managed Care - February 2015
ABSTRACT Objectives The impact of primary care practices adopting the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model is analyzed by comparing per member...
American Journal of Managed Care - February 2015
ABSTRACT Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary practice model consisting of medical providers, clinical pharmacists, and...
JAMA Internal Medicine - February 2015
Importance  The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of primary care is being implemented in a wide variety of socioeconomic contexts, yet...
PLOS ONE - February 2015
ABSTRACT The delivery of primary care to homeless individuals with mental health conditions presents unique challenges. To inform healthcare...
American Journal of Managed Care - January 2015
Abstract OBJECTIVES: The impact of primary care practices adopting the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model is analyzed by comparing per...
January 2015
Description PCPCC's Outcomes and Evaluation Center created two slide decks that can be customized for presentations on the patient-centered...
Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative - January 2015
Excerpt from Executive Summary  This year’s Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) Annual Review of the Evidence summarizes new results...
HFM Magazine - January 2015
The following PCMH outcomes can be found on page 3 of this report:  In 2009, a regional health plan in upstate New York undertook a pilot project...
Mathematica Policy Research - January 2015
  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY What are CPC’s impacts on cost, service use, and quality for attributed Medicare FFS beneficiaries? CPC is intended to reduce...
RTI International - January 2015
Under the Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Practice (MAPCP) Demonstration, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) joined state-...
Department of Vermont Health Access - January 2015
Outcomes summary:  The difference in healthcare expenditures was driven by several factors including lower hospitalization rates and lower...
Qliance Medical Management Inc. - January 2015
A review of two years' worth of healthcare claims data on thousands of patients reveals, contrary to the prevailing view, that unlimited primary care...
Journal for Healthcare Quality - January 2015
ABSTRACT Poorly executed transitions in care from hospital to home are associated with increased vulnerability to adverse medication events and...
Medical Home Network - January 2015
Melanie Maeda is one of the new health care professionals making a difference on the front lines of safety net health care in Chicago. Maeda's title...
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Health Affairs - January 2015
ABSTRACT The patient-centered medical home model of primary care has received considerable attention for its potential to improve outcomes and...
JAMA - December 2014
Importance  Patient-centered medical homes have not been shown to reduce adverse outcomes or costs in adults or children with chronic illness....
Health Data Management - December 2014
Data analyzed from 2013 on quality, outcomes and cost measures from Humana’s accountable care organization programs for about one million Medicare...
Medical Home Network - December 2014
Medical Home Network announced today the results of a data review of its model of care program for Illinois Medicaid patients as implemented at...
CMS - December 2014
This dataset presents data on Performance Year 1 final financial reconciliation and quality performance results for ACOs with 2012 and 2013 agreement...
Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing - November 2014
When the Accountable Care Collaborative (ACC) launched in 2011, the Department’s goal was not to simply deliver health care, but to improve the...
Journal of Health Care Quality - November 2014
Abstract OBJECTIVE: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) implemented a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model, termed Patient Aligned Care...
Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative - Ohio/Kentucky - November 2014
CPCi Overview: The Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative is a multi-payer initiative fostering collaboration between public and private health...
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Health Affairs - November 2014
ABSTRACT The Washington Heights–Inwood section of Manhattan is a predominantly poor Hispanic community with disproportionately high rates of chronic...
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Health Affairs - November 2014
ABSTRACT Health care payment and delivery models that challenge providers to be accountable for outcomes have fueled interest in community-level...
Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing - November 2014
The ACC as a whole generated savings that exceeded its administrative costs this year. The ACC achieved gross savings in medical costs between $98...
New England Journal of Medicine - October 2014
BACKGROUND Spending and quality under global budgets remain unknown beyond 2 years. We evaluated spending and quality measures during the first 4...
Highmark Inc. - October 2014
 Highmark Inc.'s Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program, which launched in October 2012, is showing positive results with statistical...
Connecticut Department of Social Services - October 2014
As of August, 2014, there are 87 practices (associated with 323 sites and 1,273 providers) enrolled in the Department’s PCMH program. These practices...
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Health Affairs - October 2014
ABSTRACT Patient-centered medical home initiatives are central to many efforts to reform the US health care delivery system. To better understand...
Agency of Administration, Health Care Reform - October 2014
Introduction. During the 2014 legislative session, the Vermont General Assembly passed Act No. 144, an Act Relating to Miscellaneous Amendments to...
UnitedHealth Group - September 2014
The American health care system is facing an aging population and increasing rates of chronic conditions, making primary care more important than...
Oklahoma Health Care Authority - September 2014
This is the updated version of the November 2013 report. SoonerCare is Oklahoma’s program for Medicaid beneficiaries; SoonerCare Choice is the ...
Brown & Toland Physicians - September 2014
Financial and quality results released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) earlier this week showed that Brown & Toland...
Annals of Family Medicine - September 2014
PURPOSE In 2006, Illinois established Illinois Health Connect (IHC), a primary care case management program for Medicaid that offered enhanced fee-...
American Journal of Managed Care - September 2014
Objectives: To identify the care model factors that were key for successful implementation of collaborative depression care in a statewide Minnesota...
Monefoire Medical Center - September 2014
 Montefiore Medical Center, a premier academic medical center, and the University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine today announced...
Hospital Topics - September 2014
Abstract Abstract The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) concept has been commended for its potential to increase access to primary care while...
Health Services Research - August 2014
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether adoption of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) reduces emergency department (ED) utilization among patients with...
Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield - August 2014
The five initial Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) participating in Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s ACO Shared Savings model have improved...
Health Services Research - July 2014
Objective To compare health care utilization and payments between NCQA-recognized patient-centered medical home (PCMH) practices and practices...
Population Health Management - July 2014
Abstract Abstract The authors analyzed historical claims data from 2007 to 2011 from the Vermont All-Payer Claims database for all individuals...
Annals of Family Medicine - July 2014
PURPOSE We undertook a study to evaluate the effects of medical home transformation on job satisfaction in the primary care setting. METHODS We...
American Journal of Managed Care - June 2014
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a system of care with an all-or-none bundled measure for primary-care management of diabetes mellitus reduced the...
JAMA Internal Medicine - June 2014
Importance  In 2010, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) began implementing the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model. The Patient Aligned...
Diabetes Care - June 2014
OBJECTIVE The patient-centered medical home has gained much traction. Little is known about the relationship between the model and specific health...
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Health Affairs - June 2014
Abstract:  In 2010 the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) began a nationwide initiative called Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT) that reorganized...
HealthCare Partners - June 2014
The Accountable Care Organization (ACO) formed by Anthem Blue Cross (Anthem) and HealthCare Partners in California produced $4.7 million in savings...

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