Advanced Primary Care (APC) is a practice that shifts the focus of primary care toward quality. Instead of focusing on numbers, APC ensures patients are provided with high-quality care. APC allows providers to be free of traditional time constraints due to the need of seeing a high volume of patients. In turn, this allows clinicians to spend more time and provide more comprehensive care to their patients. In addition, if a patient needs to be referred to a specialist for more additional services, APC practices have the ability to maintain that relationship and ensure that the patient’s care is thoroughly coordinated throughout the treatment process. The improved effectiveness of primary care at the population level leads to substantial decreases in cost for the patients.
The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a care-delivery model that reorganizes the way that primary care is provided to patients. The PCMH allows the patients to have one centralized location where they can receive all of their primary care services. This allows the practice staff to provide more comprehensive and coordinated care that is focused on the patient and their particular needs. The PCMH is committed to provided quality care that is evidence-based and backed by research.
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CMS wants primary-care docs to take on financial risk | Modern Healthcare | November 25, 2019 |
Reform Update: Specialty physicians make inroads into medical homes | Modern Healthcare | December 16, 2013 |
Providers fret, insurers hail N.C. move to Medicaid managed care | Modern Healthcare | October 6, 2015 |
Medical home missionary sees encouraging cost and quality trends | Modern Healthcare | July 19, 2014 |
Community health centers improved care access in medical home model, but spending increased | Modern Healthcare | June 23, 2017 |
Slavitt promises flexibility, mindfulness during MACRA implementation | Modern Healthcare | May 11, 2016 |
IOM: The doctor will see you TODAY should be standard | Modern Healthcare | June 30, 2015 |
CMS touts promise of two primary care initiatives | Bloomberg | January 23, 2015 |
WellCare Health Plans to Incentivize PCMH Model | Becker's Hospital Review | May 15, 2013 |
5 initial reactions to the proposed MACRA rule | Becker's Hospital Review | April 29, 2016 |