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	"Network-wide recognition of the medical home represents the natural progression from the dozens of successful demonstrations of the medical home across the country. Health insurers -- both public and private -- have sponsored these for years. They understand the value of supporting the medical home in general and, in particular, rewarding primary care practices for their efforts to reduce cost while improving health outcomes for patients. They also understand that sustaining the medical home model is in their interest, so health plan first-movers are putting forward more long-term payment models to support the PCMH." Marcia Nielsen, Ph.D., MPH, Executive Director, Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
	UnitedHealth Group reported an initial 29% drop in emergency room visits, an 11% drop in preventable hospitalizations and 6% fewer office visits for members served by those first medical homes. Excerpted from What's behind WellPoint's pay raise for primary care doctors?, American Medical News, February 13, 2012
	Advanced medical home elements didn't lead to better outcomes American Medical News, March 5, 2012
	U.S. Military Focuses on Patient Care by Implementing PCMH Model American Academy of Family Physicians, February 29, 2012
	American Academy of Family Physicians Kansas City Star, February 27, 2012
	NCQA's medical home assessment tool fails to deliver Health Imaging, February 16, 2012
	Tool assessing how community health centers deliver 'medical home' care flawed UCLA, February 15, 2012
	Homing In on the Medical Home HealthLeaders Media, February 13, 2012
	The State of the Market in Medical Home Contracting by Amanda Berra What is the Role of Community Pharmacy within the Medical Home? by Dr. Geraint Lewis, MA, MSc, FRCP, FFPH Editor’s Corner: Call to Action: Employers and the PCMH - Bruce Sherman, MD, FCCP, FACOEM A Surrogate Family Team Program for Seniors by Michael Zablocki, JD, MPH Thought Leaders Corner: “Wellpoint made a big splash last month with its announcement of a major, network-wide commitment to significantly increased primary care physician pay and reward potential, plus a solid endorsement of the medical home model. Is this an anomaly or a bellwether vis-a-vis health plan strategies going forward?” Industry News with briefs regarding National Business Coalition Health, Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, UnitedHealthGroup, and UCLA Catching up with…Douglas J. Wenners, MS, JD Click here to view page one of this issue Click here to subscribe to Medical Home News, or find out more
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