Making a Business Case for the Patient-Centered Medical Home

Transforming primary care practices to patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) and maintaining National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recognition cost a large physician network about $2.5 million, or $43,000 per practice, revealed a new study in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.

Researchers investigated HealthTexas Provider Network’s journey to qualify all its primary care practices as NCQA-recognized patient-centered medical homes. The fee-for-service ambulatory care provider network contains over 250 primary care, specialty care, and senior health centers as well as over 1,000 physicians in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.