Pittsburgh-based health insurer Highmark is expanding its patient-centered medical home initiative from 160 primary care physicians to roughly 1,050. Highmark launched a pilot PCMH in 2011 that included 12 physician practices and covered about 45,000 members. It reduced costs by nearly 2 percent while the costs for the remainder of Highmark's members grew.
The PCPCC recently launched an initiative sponsored by our Education & Training Task Force: to build a rich collection of primary care residency and health professional training programs that incorporate advanced practices in primary care and the patient-centered medical home.We encourage you or your colleagues to submit profiles of existing residency and health professionals training models and best practices that represent a range of communities, institutions, geographic locations, and patient populations.
Through Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) III, Arkansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Oregon have developed and tested models to improve care coordination for children with or at risk of developmental delay. The medical home has been a key mechanism in their improvement efforts. This brief draws from these states’ experiences to outline opportunities and lessons for state policy makers to consider in order to strengthen medical home initiatives by explicitly addressing the needs of children.
It was another reminder that patients lie at the heart of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), a theme considered so important that the one-day meeting devoted an entire segment to it. The need to engage patients and their families in making decisions about their health care emerged as a unifying theme that tied together disparate parts of the most recent Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) conference in Chicago on Oct. 25.
The PCPCC has partnered with the Jefferson School of Population Health as a Sponsor of the Fifth Medical Home Summit on March 13-15, 2013 in Philadelphia.
Behavioral Health Integration in the Medical Home - Screening for DepressionThursday, November 15th, 2012 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ESTREGISTER FOR FREE HEREDepression screening is an important element of behavioral health integration in the patient-centered medical home. Learn more about how this process has been successfully implemented and managed across a spectrum of patient populations - from teens to adults to medicare-eligibles - in this free and informative webinar from 1:00-2:30pm on Thursday, November 15, brought to you by the PCPCC Behavioral Health Special Interest Group.
An experiment to ensure that complex Medicaid patients have a regular doctor and care coordinators who can help them stay healthy has saved Colorado an estimated $20 million in its first year, according to a new report from Colorado’s Medicaid managers.“We’re very happy that it’s moving in the right direction,” said Laurel Karabatsos, director of health programs for the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF).So far, about 20 percent of Colorado’s more than 600,000 Medicaid clients are enrolled in the program called the Accountable Care Collaborative (ACC).
Primary Care Medical Home - Ambulatory Pre-Conference - 11/7Date: 11/7/2012Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Location:Doubletree Hotel Oak Brook1909 Spring Rd.Oak Brook, IL 60523United States The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Resources2012 Annual Ambulatory Care Conference Preconference SessionThe Joint Commission’s Primary Care Medical Home (PCMH) Certification OptionBack By Popular Demand!
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