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May 17, 2017 | CMS
Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Round 2 Region Announcement
Strengthening primary care is critical to promoting high quality, patient-centered care, and reducing overall health care costs in the U.S. The Comprehensive Primary Care...
May 16, 2017 | Modern Healthcare
Pharmacists and pharmacies have been joining with health-care teams known as patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) for some time, but lack of a payment model may be a barrier. The Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Network (CPESN) may...
May 16, 2017
A team of Mathematica researchers reviewed data from a survey of 800 primary care practices, and found that most of them—including practices participating in the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative—dismissed an average of between...
May 10, 2017 | Health Affairs Blog
Primary care in the United States is in crisis for a number of reasons. An increasing percentage of our workforce is experiencing burnout, and reimbursement for primary care is insufficient to provide needed services for patients and...
April 21, 2017
When patients and families are partners in planning and making decisions about their care, health outcomes are better, patient experience and satisfaction improves, and often, costs are lower. Transform your practice by including the...
March 30, 2017
WASHINGTON — As Congress explores changes to the health care system, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (The Collaborative) emphasizes the need to continue to advance coverage of primary care and to align payment reform for...
March 29, 2017
WASHINGTON, DC —The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (The Collaborative), one of the largest primary care advocacy organizations in the country, has announced the appointment of Ann Greiner as its new President and Chief...
March 15, 2017 | CMS
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) and the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy at the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) introduced Connected Care, an educational...
March 15, 2017
ABSTRACT
Objectives: To determine how the multipayer Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative that transforms primary care delivery affects the patient experience of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. The study examines how...
March 14, 2017 | Modern Healthcare
Everyone reported the top-line numbers from Monday's analysis of the House Republicans' American Health Care Act, a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on...
March 13, 2017 | Kaiser Health News
The Congressional Budget Office is out with its estimate of what effects the Republican health bill, “The American Health Care Act,” would have on the nation’s health care system and how much it would cost the federal government. The GOP...
March 11, 2017 | Modern Healthcare
Hospitals and physician groups across the country are beefing up merit pay for quality and patient satisfaction in their physician compensation plans. But Geisinger Health System is doing something radically different.
The 12-hospital...
March 10, 2017 | Patient Engagement HIT
Patient-centered medical home, patient navigation, and palliative care models can all improve cancer patient experience and reduce healthcare spending at the end-of-life, shows a new study published in Health Affairs.
End-of-life cancer...
March 8, 2017 | Brookings
THE ISSUE: As Congress considers the new House Republican-backed replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), they must ensure that it accomplishes a set of specific goals that are crucial for providing broad, affordable coverage to U.S...
March 6, 2017 | AAFP News
New payment models and dedicated efforts to coordinate care are changing the delivery of health care, but more progress needs to be made, primary care physicians said at a recent forum on health policy...
March 1, 2017 | Fierce Healthcare
As providers prepare for potential upheaval in healthcare regulations, they are reaching out to legislators to remind them about a key, but often-forgotten element of the U.S. healthcare system: primary care.
The National Coalition on...
February 28, 2017 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
February 28, 2017 (WASHINGTON, DC) —The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), one of the largest primary care advocacy organizations in the country, has announced the appointment of Jill Rubin Hummel, JD, President &...
February 28, 2017 | Kaiser Health News
Back in the day, people paid for routine primary care on their own and used insurance only when something serious came up. Some primary care doctors are betting that model can thrive again through a monthly subscription for routine care...
February 27, 2017 | KevinMD.com
When the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the other primary care societies introduced the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) over 10 years ago, the model was untested. Here’s a look at how the PCMH recognition process has...
February 22, 2017
Washington, DC — Independent accreditor URAC today made public its proprietary standards for the organization’s Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program. The announcement, which provides a complimentary download of the PCMH...
