BACKGROUND: Patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) may improve the quality of primary care while reducing costs and utilization. Early evidence on the effectiveness of PCMH has been mixed.
OBJECTIVES: We analyze the impact of a PCMH intervention in Rochester NY on costs, utilization, and quality of care.
More customers are getting better health results through Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana’s Quality Blue Primary Care program – designed to focus care on the patient, give primary care doctors better data and hold down costs.
Importance Recent health care legislation and shifting health care financing strategies are transforming health and behavioral health care in the United States and incentivizing integrated medical-behavioral health care as a strategy for improving access to high-quality care for behavioral health conditions, enhancing patient outcomes, and containing costs.
Members receiving care from a doctor who participates in a patient-centered program are scoring higher on quality care metrics – at a cost that is nine percent lower -- than those members at traditional doctor practices, according to the 2014 results of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey's patient-centered programs.
This report lays out the progress of Oregon’s coordinated care organizations (CCOs) on quality measures in 2014. This is the sixth such report since coordinated care organizations were launched in 2012. In addition, this is the second report to show a full calendar year of data, as well as results from the second year of Oregon’s pay for performance program.
The Minnesota Department of Human Services’ innovative Medicaid reform initiative, the Integrated Health Partnerships (IHP), delivered a dramatic $61.5 million in savings in 2014, benefiting taxpayers while continuing to improve health care for low-income people.
On Friday, Commissioner Lucinda Jesson announced plans to extend the IHP and comparable value-based reforms to half of all Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare enrollees – about 500,000 people – by the end of 2018.
This year’s Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) Annual Review of the Evidence summarizes new results from primary care patient-centered medical home (PCMH) initiatives published from September 2013 through November 2014 (since the publication of the previous Annual Review). Selected cost and utilization outcomes from a combination of peer-reviewed studies, state program evaluations, and industry publications are aggregated to present an overview of PCMH and primary care innovations happening across the country.
