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	“The most difficult parts of the medical home transformation process/maintenance in my practice are patient engagement and payer engagement, accompanied by misaligned incentives. These issues impact the feasibility of establishing and maintaining a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) by adding costs with little if any enhanced reimbursement, while we are still largely compensated in the traditional fee-for-service environment.” Ed Rippel, MD, Solo Practitioner, Quinnipiac Internal Medicine, P.C.
	Nearly 7,000 primary care practices have officially been accredited as PCMHs, and thousands of other providers have adopted some features of medical homes.
	Excerpted from: Medical Home News, Volume 6 Number 5, May 2014, "Obamacare Payment Pilots Are Struggling To Prove They Work. Here's Why It's OK."
	Beyond the medical home: Coordinating care for children AAP News, May 1, 2014
	A Mobile Medical Home: Vans Bring the Clinic to Patients California Health Report, April 24, 2014
	Medpac struggles to define “medical home” Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), April 17, 2014
	What Older Adults Are Saying about Team Care and the Medical Home
	Health Affairs/Grant Watch Blog, April 14, 2014
	Medical home must-dos for population health management
	FierceHealthPayer, April 11, 2014
	Structuring Payment to Medical Homes After the Affordable Care Act Journal of General Internal Medicine, abstract only, April 1, 2014
	Obamacare Payment Pilots Are Struggling To Prove They Work. Here's Why It's OK. by Dan Diamond Making PCMH Evolution a No-brainer by Doug Rossier, MBA Editor’s Corner –Amy Cheslock on Patient-Centered Care: This is Not a Test Case Managers May Gain New Responsibilities in PCMHs and ACOs under Mental Health Parity Rules by Betsy B, Waterman, PhD, and Ellen Fink-Samnick, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, CCM, CRP Thought Leaders Corner: "What was the hardest part of the patient-centered medical home transformation process?” Industry News with briefs regarding Health Affairs; Federation of State Medical Boards; Teladoc and the BlueCross BlueShield Association National Labor Office; John A. Hartford Foundation; AHRQ; and AccessCare of the Blue Ridge and Appalachian State University’s College of Health Sciences Catching up with … Monica Guillen 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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