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February 20, 2014

PCPCC Letter to Congress Supporting SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act

February 20, 2014 Dear Speaker Boehner, Majority Leader Reid, Minority Leader McConnell, and Minority Leader Pelosi: The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), commends the Senate Finance, House Ways and Means, and Energy...

February 17, 2014 | Wall Street Journal

The Doctor's Team Will See You Now: Why Visit One Doctor When Some Offices Offer a Medical Entourage?

A visit to the doctor may mean seeing someone else instead. An increasing number of practices are scrapping the traditional one-on-one doctor-patient relationship. Instead, patients are receiving care from a group of health professionals...

February 13, 2014 | MedPage Today

The Patient-Friendly ER: From Hello to Goodbye

Last week's column focused on some of the many challenges we've encountered trying to create a more patient-centered transitions program for moving patients from the inpatient setting to the outpatient setting. As we have been going...

February 13, 2014 | FierceHealthPayer

Mobile tech to end health disparities: Aetna Foundation's Garth Graham: Digital health 'a powerful equalizer'

The growing use of technology presents healthcare organizations with the opportunity to reduce healthcare disparities by helping minorities manage their health, physician Garth Graham, president of the Aetna Foundation, wrote this week in...

February 13, 2014 | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Maine Shifts Health Focus To Community

For the last three of the nearly six decades Shirley Estes, 80, has been married to her husband Harry, since his first heart attack and quadruple bypass at age 51, she has spent so many nights and early mornings in the Eastern Maine...

February 12, 2014

PCPCC Supports SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act

Statement Attributable to: Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH Chief Executive Officer, Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative The PCPCC commends the Members of the Senate Finance, House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees on...

February 10, 2014 | Penn Medicine

Penn's Innovative Community Health Worker Model Improves Outcomes for High-Risk Patients: Peer Support Program Improves Access to Care and Quality of Communication while Reducing Repeat Hospitalizations

Experts at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have devised an effective, replicable program using trained lay Community Health Worker (CHWs) to improve a range of outcomes among patients at high risk for poor...

February 6, 2014 | Kaiser Health News

Hill Plan Would Shift Medicare’s Doctor Payment System To Reward Quality

The bipartisan leadership of three Senate and House committees introduced legislation Thursday to overhaul the way Medicare pays physicians. The package, which does not specify how it would be paid for, would repeal the current system,...

February 4, 2014 | The Lund Report

Coordinated Care Organization Progress Data Shows Continued Reduction in Emergency Department Visits, Lower Costs

Oregon‘s fourth Health System Transformation report indicates that the coordinated care model is continuing to improve key areas of care for Oregon’s Medicaid population, while keeping costs down. The report released today shows...

February 3, 2014 | Medical Xpress

Hypertensive patients' specialty use changed with medical home

Group Health studied how patients with treated hypertension used outpatient specialty care before, during, and after a primary-care redesign (the patient-centered medical home) was spread system-wide. David T. Liss, PhD, now a research...

February 3, 2014 | MedPage Today

White House to Push ACOs, Other New Models

The Obama administration in 2014 will "double down" on delivery system reform efforts such as the further proliferation of accountable care organizations (ACOs), a White House health policy adviser said Monday. "The system works so long...

February 1, 2014 | Medical Home News

Collaborative of the Primary Care Training Collaborative

The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a model for practice redesign to assure that people are provided safe, comprehensive, coordinated, and personalized health care. However, most primary care residency programs are not fully...

January 27, 2014 | California Healthline

Central Valley Project To Improve Health Costs, Outcomes Appears To Be Paying Off

A pilot project to improve the management of chronic disease and reduce health care spending has resulted in nearly a million dollars in savings over 12 months for a Central Valley school district. The Fresno Unified Joint Health...

January 25, 2014 | Modern Healthcare

New Path to Medicare Cost Control: Bipartisan bill touts flexibility, incentives, chronic-care management—and maybe enough to fund doc-pay fix

Move over accountable care. A new contender for controlling Medicare costs has entered the arena. The Better Care, Lower Cost Act of 2014, introduced this month by Democratic and Republican sponsors in the House and Senate, offers an...

January 24, 2014 | The Commonwealth Fund

Where Are We on the Diffusion Curve? : Trends and Drivers of Primary Care Physicians' Use of Health Information Technology

Synopsis Adoption of health information technology (HIT) by physician practices rose considerably from 2009 to 2012, yet solo physicians lag practices of 20 or more and certain functions—like electronically exchanging information with...

January 22, 2014 | Medical Xpress

Study demonstrates care managers in PCMHs increase improvements in diabetes patients

Patient centered medical homes (PCMHs) have been found to be an effective way to help care for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes. Dr. Robert Gabbay, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Joslin...

January 16, 2014 | Brookings

The Future of Patient Centered Medical Homes and Accountable Care

Improving health care in the United States is not an easy venture. With high and rising costs and room for improvement in the quality of care delivered, national, state, and local efforts have engendered a renewed focus on primary care: in...

January 15, 2014 | Fierce Healthcare

Report: PCMH model leads to reduced cost of care, improved population health

A patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model resulted in reduced costs of care, unnecessary emergency room (ER) and hospital visits, and improved population health, according to a research report by the Patient-Centered Primary Care...

January 15, 2014 | Health Leaders Media

PCMH Data Certifies Proof of Concept: Data collected from 11 states strongly suggests that the question to ask about the patient-centered medical home model is not whether it reduces healthcare costs and improves outcomes, but how well.

Forgive me for preaching to the choir, but another round-up of studies released this week re-confirms what we already know: Patient-centered medical homes improve health outcomes and reduce costs. In fact, the question is no longer "will...

January 15, 2014 | Medical Economics

Patient-Centered Medical Homes reduce costs of care and ED visits, report says

As more primary care practices look to adopt the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, a new report shows that it may be effective in reducing the cost of care and the number of visits patients make to the Emergency Department (ED...