Through Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) III, Arkansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Oregon have developed and tested models to improve care coordination for children with or at risk of developmental delay. The medical home has been a key mechanism in their improvement efforts. This brief draws from these states’ experiences to outline opportunities and lessons for state policy makers to consider in order to strengthen medical home initiatives by explicitly addressing the needs of children.
The United States will need an additional 52,000 primary care doctors to cope with population growth, newly insured people and an aging population, a group of researchers has forecast. The researchers -- from several institutions including Georgetown University and the Robert Graham Center, Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington, D.C. – looked at several factors to come up with their total.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 (12pm - 1:30pm US/Eastern)Webinar Click here to register for this webinar Join URAC on November 13, 2012, as their faculty discusses ideas that will stimulate you and your team to focus on strategies that will improve your adherence in your patients. Program Objectives - Discuss barriers to medication adherence. - Learn about tools that help measure adherence as well those that are available to assist consumers in improving adherence. - Share strategies that providers and payers can implement. Our Webinar Will Answer These Questions - What impact does limited t
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.
An experiment to ensure that complex Medicaid patients have a regular doctor and care coordinators who can help them stay healthy has saved Colorado an estimated $20 million in its first year, according to a new report from Colorado’s Medicaid managers.“We’re very happy that it’s moving in the right direction,” said Laurel Karabatsos, director of health programs for the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF).So far, about 20 percent of Colorado’s more than 600,000 Medicaid clients are enrolled in the program called the Accountable Care Collaborative (ACC).
The Time Out for Genetics webinar, "Top 10 Genetics Resources for Pediatric Primary Care Providers" took place on Thursday, October 25 from 12-12:30pm Central. The webinar aims to provide an overview of the current resources available to primary care providers.
