What we now know about the patient-centered medical home
Three years and some $8 million ago, the AAFP boldly launched TransforMed, whose primary mission was to carry out a national demonstration project (NDP) to test a model of the patient-centered medical...
View ArticleBarbara Starfield on Family Medicine and the PCMH
The work of Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, has been enormously effective in establishing the value of primary care in general and family medicine in particular. One testimony to this is the AAFP’s list...
View ArticleIs your practice a medical home?
From NPR.org:"Insurers will also pay [practices participating in a medical home pilot project] bonuses for keeping patients healthy. So, behind the scenes, the office is keeping track of patients,...
View ArticleTen steps from ordinary practice to PCMH practice?
This new article from FPM says the trick is to start with steps that increase practice revenue, then use that revenue to support later steps.First, stop undercoding; get the revenue you deserve....
View ArticleA detour on the way to the medical home
Last week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published an update on the long-delayed Medicare Medical Home Demonstration. The September announcement from the Department of Health...
View ArticleWill accountable care swallow up primary care?
If you've heard something about "accountable care organizations" (ACOs) in discussions of health care reforms, but you're not quite sure what they are or where they're supposed to fit in, you might...
View ArticlePCMH: Will it play in Peoria (or Topeka)?
A survey conducted recently by the Kansas Primary Care Physicians Coalition evaluated awareness of and interest in the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) concept among Kansas primary care...
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Medical home certification: Reader poll results
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is being touted as the ideal model for primary care. At least 27 PCMH pilot projects are underway across the country, according to a recent FPM article, and...
View ArticleBlended payment model initiative values primary care
Amidst the doom and gloom of the 27.4 percent fee cut called for in the 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and the all-too-familiar uncertainty about whether Congress will once again intervene at the...
View ArticleMedical Home Summit takes the temperature of the PCMH
Last week, the Fifth Annual Medical Home Summit was held in Philadelphia, attracting more than 300 physicians, practice managers and other industry members to discuss the current state of practices...
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