Research
JAMA - June 2013
Abstract
The focus of an ongoing effort in health care quality improvement is to encourage patients to ask questions during their care. In September...
American Journal of Managed Care - May 2013
Objectives: Although the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model is being implemented across the country to transform primary care, it is not yet...
Annals of Family Medicine - May 2013
Abstract
PURPOSE:
We examined quality, satisfaction, financial, and productivity outcomes associated with implementation of Care by Design (CBD),...
Annals of Family Medicine - May 2013
Abstract
PURPOSE The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is being rapidly deployed in many settings to strengthen US primary care, improve quality...
Institute of Medicine - May 2013
Abstract
Over the last 100 years, much of the landscape has changed with regards to the health professions and the settings in which these...
Alliance for Health Reform - May 2013
The federal government has launched demonstration projects to test whether patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) can tackle some of the biggest...
The Permanente Journal - April 2013
Abstract
Social determinants of health are the conditions in which individuals are born, grow, live, work, and age. Increasingly, they are being...
Bipartisan Policy Center - April 2013
Improving Medicare, reforming tax policies, prioritizing healthcare quality and incentivizing states could save roughly $560 billion over the next...
New York State Department of Health - April 2013
Since 2010, the number of PCMH providers in NYS has increased from 633 to 4,461. As of mid-2012, over 1.4 million Medicaid managed care (MMC) and...
American Journal of Managed Care - March 2013
At this time of national focus on the need to simultaneously improve quality and reduce cost, novel solutions are needed. The fragmented healthcare...
Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative - March 2013
The PCPCC has developed the following framework to help fellow medical home supporters and advocates explain the benefits and strategies associated...
Military Medicine - February 2013
CONTEXT: Patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) are intended to actively provide effective care by physician-led teams, where patients take a leading...
Department of Vermont Health Access - February 2013
Total Expenditures:
From 2007 through 2011, growth in total healthcare expenditures slowed across all groups in the commercial population, with the...
Health Affairs - February 2013
ABSTRACT
The delivery of health care online is relatively new. However, early indications suggest that it can improve the experience of care for...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - February 2013
Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Good Return on Investment for Employers
As the largest purchaser of health care in America, employers are paying a...
The Commonwealth Fund - February 2013
Preventable hospital admissions and readmissions are indicators of health system fragmentation associated with suboptimal patient outcomes and...
The University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design - January 2013
Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID) - hailed as a "game changer" by the National Coalition on Health Care - refers to insurance designs that cary...
American Journal of Managed Care - December 2012
Objectives:
To assess the impact of the MDVIP model of personalized preventive care on hospital utilization rates over a 5-year period.
Study...
Annals of Family Medicine - November 2012
Abstract
PURPOSE: This study describes key elements of the transition to a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model at Southcentral Foundation (...
Medical Care Research and Review - November 2012
Abstract
The patient-centered medical home is an important innovation in health care delivery. There is a need to assess the scope and substance of...
Health Affairs - November 2012
Abstract
The patient-centered medical home is a promising model for improving access to high-quality care for more Americans at lower cost. However...
BlueCross BlueShield Alabama - October 2012
While the concept of a medical home was first introduced in 1967, it has gained popularity in recent years with providers, patients and healthcare...
Institute of Medicine - September 2012
Abstract
Equity was identified as one of the six core dimensions of a high-performing, high-quality health care system in the landmark Institute of...
Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative - September 2012
The medical home is an approach to delivering and organizing primary care that helps achieve the goals of the Triple Aim: improve the experience of...
The American Journal of Managed Care - September 2012
Abstract
Amidst dwindling economic resources and shrinking healthcare budgets, patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) are gaining traction as an...
Health Affairs - September 2012
Abstract
Primary care must be reengineered to improve outcomes and affordability. To achieve those goals, WellPoint invested in ten patient-centered...
Health Affairs - September 2012
The Colorado Multipayer Patient-Centered Medical Home Pilot, which ran from May 2009 through April 2012, was one of the first voluntary multipayer...
Health Affairs - September 2012
Abstract
Primary care must be reengineered to improve outcomes and affordability. To achieve those goals, WellPoint invested in ten patient-centered...
Medical Care - August 2012
BACKGROUND:
Many wish to change incentives for primary care practices through bundled population-based payments and substantial performance feedback...
Health Affairs - August 2012
ABSTRACT
Seven provider organizations in Massachusetts entered the Blue Cross Blue Shield Alternative Quality Contract in 2009, followed by four...
Health Care Management Review - July 2012
The Issue
Initiating patient-centered approaches to care delivery can be challenging for provider organizations. Understanding the factors that...
Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians - June 2012
PAFP revealed The Patient-Centered Medical Home, the first-ever compendium of everything patients and physicians need to know about the PCMH. Within...
The Commonwealth Fund - May 2012
The patient-centered medical home has emerged as a promising solution to address the significant fragmentation, poor quality, and high costs that...
American Journal of Managed Care - March 2012
Objectives: To estimate cost savings associated with ProvenHealth Navigator (PHN), which is an advanced model of patient-centered medical homes (...
JAMA Internal Medicine - January 2012
Background: We sought to determine whether perceived patient-centered medical home (PCMH) characteristics are associated with staff morale, job...
Milliman - December 2011
The purpose of this analysis is to report on Medicaid cost savings achieved by the Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) networks for the Division...
Blue Cross Blue Shield - December 2011
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) today reissued results from a multi-year pilot program designed to increase the use of...
Cigna Industry Report - November 2011
An Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is any organization that takes on the responsibility for achieving the triple aim-improving the quality,...
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association - October 2011
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabamaworks with the Alabama Hospital Association and more than 60 hospitals...
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine - September 2011
Abstract
Medical care in the United States is plagued by extremely high costs, poor quality, and fragmented delivery. In response, new concepts of...
New England Journal of Medicine - September 2011
BACKGROUND
In 2009, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBS) implemented a global payment system called the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC...
Amerigroup - August 2011
Amerigroup Corporation (NYSE: AGP) is working with hundreds of physicians in six states on a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) pilot program that...
Cigna - August 2011
First-year results from Cigna's (NYSE:CI) collaborative accountable care initiative with Medical Clinic of North Texas (MCNT) indicate that these...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachussetts - July 2011
The initial findings of a longitudinal assessment of AQC results, conducted by Michael Chernew, Ph.D. and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School...
Health Affairs - July 2011
ABSTRACT
This article describes patient-centered medical home initiatives that seventeen states have launched. These initiatives use national...
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) - June 2011
"A medical neighborhood is defined as a medical home and the constellation of other clinicians providing health care services to patients within it,...
United States Air Force Testimony Before the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Defense
United States Air Force - May 2011
Air Force Medical Home integrates the patient into the health care team, offering aggressive prevention and personalized intervention. Physicians...
The Advisory Board Company - February 2011
Evidence from medical home (PCMH) pilots suggests that reductions are on the way for specialty and hospital services, and that integrated health...
Journal of Ambulatory Care Management - January 2011
ABSTRACT
Multilevel, multivariate models examined the relationship between Primary Care Medical Home (PCMH) practice systems as measured by the...
Go to the Gateway - January 2011
The Rural Health Research Gateway provides easy and timely access to research conducted by the Rural Health Research Centers, funded by the Federal...
