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January 14, 2014 | The Boston Globe
The waiting room is full, as it is most mornings at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program’s main facility on Albany Street in the South End. The patient, an older-looking man with a baseball hat tugged down hard on his head, walks up...
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January 13, 2014 | PCPCC Press Release
Embargoed Until Monday, January 13th, 4PM PCPCC: Michelle Shaljian, 347-754-1692, michelle@pcpcc.net Milbank: Tara Strome, 212-355-8400, tstrome@milbank.org New Report Finds Medical Homes Are Reducing Health Care Costs, Utilization, and...
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December 26, 2013 | Portland Business Journal
Some medical practices around Portland have earned a special designation. And while patients may not be aware that their doctor’s office is actually a Patient Centered Primary Care Home, they may notice extra efforts being made to reach...
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December 24, 2013 | The Clinical Advisor
A significant majority of patients report experiencing a high quality of care at federally-supported health centers with patient-centered medical home (PCMH) attributes, study findings indicate. "PCMH attributes related to access to care...
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December 18, 2013 | Statesman Journal
Most Oregonians recently secured access to a new, innovative way of receiving health care, and this little-known success had nothing to do with insurance exchanges or websites. Nearly all Oregon insurers just agreed to begin paying for...
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December 18, 2013 | PR Web
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey announced today that it is launching a new, family-focused program to improve the health of children. This is Horizon BCBSNJ’s first patient-centered program dedicated to pediatric care....
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December 16, 2013 | Modern Healthcare
The proposals to scrap Medicare's sustainable growth-rate formula for updating physician pay include less-noticed provisions rewarding practices that operate as a patient-centered medical home. There is a twist, however. The medical home...
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December 12, 2013
Background: There is growing evidence that practice-based care management can improve clinical quality and reduce costly healthcare utilization. Objectives: To explore how a disparate group of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs)...
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December 10, 2013 | PCPCC Press Release
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) launched a free online database that identifies innovative primary care workforce training programs throughout the U.S. It focuses specifically on programs...
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December 5, 2013 | PR Web
New results show that Monmouth County public employees are benefitting from a new wellness initiative designed by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. County employees who used physicians in Horizon BCBSNJ’s Patient-Centered...
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December 5, 2013 | Business Wire
Anthem Blue Cross and its Accountable Care Organization (ACO) partners showed across the board improvements in the treatment of patients in 2012, the first full year of Anthem’s program, including a 35 percent increase in the number of...
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November 23, 2013 | LaCrosse Tribune
Julie Burke is a busy mother of three boys who has better things to do than sit in a doctor’s office waiting for an appointment. That’s why the Sparta woman has been happy to participate in a two-year pilot program at the Sparta Clinic of...
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November 17, 2013 | NPR
As I walk to the door of my patient's house on a dirt road outside Tuscaloosa, Ala., I step gingerly. Mrs. Edgars says that she killed a rattlesnake in her flower bed last year. She is at the door, expecting my visit. Mr. Edgars sits on...
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November 14, 2013 | Readmissions News
Q. How big an impact will the continuing growth in medical homes and ACOs have on the reduction in preventable readmissions?  “If we recognize that avoidable readmissions are the ultimate stamp of a fragmented health care system, then the...
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November 14, 2013 | FierceHealthIT
A new Standards & Interoperability Framework initiative launched today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT aims to create a common technical standard to allow prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) to share...
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November 13, 2013 | Portland Business Journal
A Portland doctor has a theory about what lies behind the strides being made in care delivery for Oregon’s Medicaid population. We reported last week that the Oregon Health Authority issued a report on the state’s 16 Coordinated Care...
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November 12, 2013
Statement Attributable to: Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH Chief Executive Officer, Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative Dear Members of the Senate Finance/House Ways and Means Committee: As a large and diverse stakeholder group, we...
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November 9, 2013 | Modern Healthcare
You've heard the grim prognosis many times before. Unless immediate action is taken, the U.S. supply of doctors will be 91,500 short of the number needed by 2020 and 130,600 physicians short by 2025, according to an Association of American...
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November 6, 2013 | AAFP News
Family physicians in the throes of creating patient-centered medical home (PCMH) practices, learning about medical neighborhoods, and gaining full functionality of their electronic health records (EHRs) may appreciate a new report that...
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November 5, 2013 | Healthcare Payer News
Colorado's experiment with accountable care in Medicaid has led to a second year of savings, and other states are taking note. Colorado Medicaid achieved $44 million in gross savings or “cost avoidance” in its accountable care...
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