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Complimentary from the publishers of Medical Home News April, 2018

“There are definitely cases where specialty care can be delivered through a patient-centered medical home. There are many oncology medical homes for cancer patients, for example. And I can see the logic of this, as everyone wants to save money, whether it’s on primary care or on specialty care. But I don’t know how far this model can go into the area of specialty care while it still remains a medical home for the patient.”
- Rachel Burton, Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute .

"African-American women are hit particularly hard by prenatal and birth issues. In Texas, they are 41 percent more likely than white women to give birth prematurely, a gap that has increased roughly 50 percent over the past 20 years."

Excerpted from: Medical Home News, Volume 10 Number 4, April 2018, "In Texas, Pregnancy Medical Home Cuts Down On Preterm Births," by Ron Shinkman.

How cutting off subsidy payments to insurance companies would affect Obamacare

Patient-Centered Oncology: It's More than Just Improving Measures -- It's Impacting Patient Care

Yes, a patient-centered approach to care helps improve quality and align with MACRA, but its biggest impact is on the patient. See how one oncology practice implemented a patient-centered approach and hear a perspective about what patient-centeredness means from a patient.

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	Neoteryx: Patient-centered medicine: 5 key questions to ask 1. Does everyone know everything they need to know? 2. Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? 3. Continue reading here Source: Neoteryx blog, March 28, 2018

In Texas, Pregnancy Medical Home Cuts Down On Preterm Births by Ron Shinkman

Using The Medical Home Setting For Improving Asthma Care by Nathan D. Shippee, Michael Finch, and Douglas R. Wholey

Editor’s Corner: Csaba Mera, M.D. of Turn-Key Health on the use of medical homes for delivering palliative care

Thought Leaders’ Corner: "Will the proposed Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) incentive payments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services make a difference in the operation of medical homes?"

Catching Up With …Rachel Burton
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