Topic: The Medical Home Experience: Care Coordination and the Patient's Role in Shared Decision Making and Team CommunicationDate: Thursday, July 12, 2012Event Time: 1:00 – 2:30pm ETIn this webinar, we will explore the definition of the care team and care coordination as well as the key elements of care coordination within the PCMH. We will also talk about the patient’s perspective by reviewing Christine Bechtel’s research on patients and the delivery system as a whole – its challenges and potential solutions – including care coordination and the medical home. Speakers: Melinda K.
Topic: The Role of Health Technology in the New Care Models.Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2012Event Time: 1:00-2:30pm ET. Speaker: CDR Kevin Dorrance, MD, FACP, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Bethesda.CDR Dorrance will talk about how to realize health technology’s potential to improve communications between physicians and patients, understand health initiatives that are rewarding physicians on the basis of quality and discover how to enhance the coordination of care in a PCMH.
Implementing Teams in a Patient-Centered Medical Home Residency Practice: Lessons LearnedTsveti Markova, MD, Maribeth Mateo, MD and Linda M. Roth, PhDAbsractIntroduction: The “new model of care” calls for a new approach for primary care delivery that focuses on patient centeredness, quality, safety, effective and efficient care, and interdisciplinary teamwork. Medical education needs to parallel this health care reorganization.
HARRISBURG, PA -- Today marks the one-year anniversary of Capital BlueCross' launch of two Accountable Care Arrangements (ACA). Preliminary results demonstrate that this innovative care delivery model is improving care coordination, lowering the medical cost trend, and improving the member's management of chronic conditions and overall satisfaction with care. This initiative builds off of the experience Capital BlueCross gained after implementing the region's first private patient-centered medical home pilot in 2010.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey announced “ground-breaking” results from its statewide PCMH program. Collaborating with leading primary care doctors and the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians, BCBSNJ developed the PCMH program with the goal of increasing accountability and improving coordination and quality of patient care. Preliminary quality and cost trends from 2011 indicate that this program reached its goals of improving quality while at the same time reducing health care costs.
In efforts to improve quality of care and lower health care costs, Aetna and the Connecticut State Medical Society Independent Practice Association (CSMS-IPA) announced on March 13, 2012 in the New York Times that they are designing a program based on the collaborative care model for its Medicare Advantage members. Nurse case managers and physicians will collaborate in order to improve quality of services and provide better care management to this population. Quality and efficiency measures in various clinical areas will be used to monitor improvements in adherence to best practices and tr
In January 2012, Connecticut introduced a PCMH initiative within their redesign of the Medicaid program HUSKY health. Connecticut’s Medicaid program will provide new payment incentives to health care practices and clinics demonstrating higher standards of patient-centered medical care.Additional state support will be provided to practices that currently are not recognized by NCQA as meeting Level 2 or Level 3 status for a PCMH.
UnitedHealth, Nation's Largest Insurer, Is Latest to Announce Fee Overhaul
As reported in the Wall Street Journal, UnitedHealth Group, Inc has announced plans to introduce contracts nationwide that will overhaul the reimbursement structure for medical providers and hospitals.
