Patient-Centered Medical Home: What You Need to Know

Developed by the PCPCC, in collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim, these fact sheets provide an overview of the definition of the medical home for providers and their patients. 

What the PCMH is:

• Advanced, comprehensive primary care, endorsed as primary care’s future by societies of all the relevant clinical professions.
• A long-term partnership between your team and each patient, focusing on the whole person:  not just care for illness, not just episodic visits, but support and advice for all aspects of health and wellness including prevention, mental health, and health-related behaviors.
• A team led by the patient’s personal clinician, in which every team member has a role in comprehensive, continuous, and coordinated care.
• Everyone works to the top of his or her license and everyone works with the patients.
• A great application of health information technology and data, to communicate, to manage your patient population, and to measure your results.
• Finally, payment for value: insurance plans rewarding good quality care and improved outcomes instead of volume of visits or RBRVUs.