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October 31, 2013 | House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committee
Background
The Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula – the mechanism that ties physician payment updates to the relationship between overall fee schedule spending and growth in gross domestic product (GDP) – is fundamentally broken....
October 28, 2013 | Psychiatric News
Over the past few years, we have seen increasing interest in a new area of psychiatry called “integrated care” or “collaborative care,” and today I have the privilege of writing the first in what will become a monthly Psychiatric News ...
October 21, 2013 | National Academy of Sciences
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) today announced the names of 70 new members and 10 foreign associates during its 43rd annual meeting. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and...
October 17, 2013 | MedPage Today
As regulators and health policy experts try to determine the effectiveness of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs), one evaluator says they shouldn't all be judged by the same measuring stick.
Instead, those questioning the cost and...
October 15, 2013 | FierceHealthIT
Health IT offers the opportunity to expand upon the patient-centered medical home, according to a report from the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.
Though many providers are working closely with other medical providers, they...
October 15, 2013 | MedPage Today
Although Medicare's proposed complex care management billing code might seem like a help to patient-centered medical homes (PCMH), not all PCMH supporters like the idea.
Medicare -- the country's largest healthcare payer -- should move...
October 14, 2013
(Washington, DC) – In response to increasing collaborations among traditional medical providers and community organizations, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) released a new report to support primary care clinicians...
October 14, 2013 | Modern Healthcare
While the patient-centered medical home has been touted as the foundation for a better coordinated and more efficient healthcare system, experts now say medical home practices need to be connected to other parts of the healthcare system....
October 8, 2013 | PCPCC Press Release
October 7, 2013 (Washington, DC) - The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) will host its Annual Conference on October 13 – 15 in Bethesda, MD, including over a dozen panels and workshops that emphasize the role of primary...
October 7, 2013 | The State
With one in five South Carolinians medically uninsured, the launching of the “Healthy Outcome Plans” by hospitals throughout the state recently appears to be the proverbial drop in the bucket.
The plans, done at the request of the state...
October 5, 2013 | Modern Healthcare
Many healthcare providers and payers are moving forward with patient-centered medical homes to improve primary care and care coordination and reduce costs, despite mixed research evidence of the cost-effectiveness of this major delivery...
October 1, 2013 | Tufts Dental Magazine
The dentist eyes her patient’s red, spongy gums. she knows he was diagnosed some years ago with Type 2 diabetes, and now the condition of his mouth tells her that his blood-glucose levels are likely not as well-controlled as they should be...
September 30, 2013
Dear Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Hatch:
As a large and diverse stakeholder group committed to health system transformation, the leadership of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), thanks you for this opportunity to...
September 27, 2013 | MedPage Today
Medicare understands the value of primary care, but the process of increasing payments to such providers may be more difficult than the program realizes, a former head of the American Academy of Family Physicians said here.
The Centers...
September 26, 2013 | New York Times
Although the new federal health care law is designed to help people buying individual policies, even people with employer-provided policies are beginning to see changes in their coverage as companies rethink health care for their workers,...
September 25, 2013 | Medical Economics
The entire healthcare community is looking for ways to reduce costs and confusion, while yielding better patient outcomes. New reimbursement models being tested by Medicare, private payers and think tanks aim to consider all the entities...
September 24, 2013 | Fierce PracticeManagement
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) continues to help healthcare organizations achieve lower costs and better care, as well as improve physician and staff morale. With such potential benefits, FiercePracticeManagement reached out to...
September 11, 2013 | MedPage Today
The use of electronic health records has the capacity to cut down on the number of emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations, and also to improve early diagnosis in primary care, two studies suggested.
In one U.S. study of...
September 6, 2013 | U.S. News & World Report
After returning from a Nevada hiking trip in June, Catherine Helling, 45, of Dubuque, Iowa, landed in the hospital for cellulitis, a dangerous skin infection. Early into Helling's six-day stay, her internist visited, coordinated Helling's...
August 28, 2013 | Kaiser Health News
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) may actually be the unicorns we’ve been waiting for, spreading their cost-saving magic throughout the health system.
An early cost-sharing program in Massachusetts designed to cut costs for private...
