The more primary care clinics implemented components of a patient-centered medical home model, the greater they were able to improve their management of chronic diseases, a new study found. The study, ...

During this segment, Michael Kolodziej, MD, and Ted Okon, MBA, discuss how programs such as CMS’ Next Generation ACO model and the Community Oncology Alliance’s (COA’s) Oncology Medical Home model are ...

Practitioners, payers, and patients alike increasingly recognize the need for the PCMH in the United States, especially as reform efforts seek to control costs and improve quality of care delivery.

As the patient-centered medical home model continues to gain steam around the country, one insurer has embraced this type of delivery reform on a particularly large scale. Blue Cross Blue Shield of ...

Tampa, Fla.-based WellCare Health Plans has announced it will offer incentives for the use of the patient-centered medical home model in its Georgia Medicaid provider network. WellCare will provide ...

The first intensive medical home is a big step for payment transformation, and a way for independents to vie with health systems Improving the Patient Financial Experience Throughout the Patient ...

says the network of physicians certified under the patient-centered medical home model has swelled to 1,200 as the nation's largest medical home experiment continues to gain traction across the state.

"But evidence is limited on the impact of medical home adoption on veterans' experience of patient care." The researchers looked at veterans' experiences associated with Patient Aligned Care Teams, an ...

Data from more than 800 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) primary care clinics revealed that national implementation of a patient-centered medical home model was effective at improving several ...

A study done by the Group Health Cooperative has demonstrated that a new care model coupled with the use of health information technology could serve as a solution to the nation’s primary care ...

"Showing payers the ROI of the [patient-centered medical home] model will help them want to [support] it. Payers are realizing increasingly that it is a good investment on their part," says NCQA ...

This year's hot economist is Dr. Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School, and just in time for our health reform debate he has a book out on the health care market. (Amazon has it for 33% off.) ...