Results from a three-year study by Independence Blue Cross (IBC) demonstrating reduced costs and utilization for high-risk patients cared for by patient-centered medical homes appear today in The American Journal of Managed Care. The study involved approximately 700 IBC members — most with multiple chronic illnesses including congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and asthma — who experience a disproportionately high number of hospital stays and costly health care services.
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.
UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH), the largest U.S. provider of medical coverage, will join the Mayo Clinic in a research alliance designed to merge insurance records and medical data to find more efficient ways to deliver care. The venture will focus on fundamental issues that may help standardize care in a way that will lower costs, said Veronique Roger, head of the clinic’s Center for the Science of Health Delivery.
Sponsored by PCPCC's Stakeholder Center for Employer & Purchaser Engagement, this webinar will explore the relationship between specialists and primary care physicians in an accountable, coordinated care environment, including medical homes and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO).
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.
TransforMED & Phytel Webinar: "Comprehensive" Primary Care and "Full-Scope" Primary CareThursday, December 6th, 2012 2:00 PM ESTIn the early days of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and the development of its join principles, there was a lot of discussion around "comprehensive" primary care. Was that critical aspect of PCMH? Should it be required of a PCMH practice?With the advent of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation's Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, great strides have been made in defining the potential new role and de
TransforMED & Phytel Webinar: "Comprehensive" Primary Care and "Full-Scope" Primary CareThursday, December 6th, 2012 2:00 PM ESTIn the early days of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and the development of its join principles, there was a lot of discussion around "comprehensive" primary care. Was that critical aspect of PCMH? Should it be required of a PCMH practice?With the advent of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation's Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, great strides have been made in defining the potential new role and deliverables for primary care going f
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.
