Medical Home Bulletin
  Complimentary from the publishers of Medical Home News                        May, 2018
 
 
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  “I think we still have a lot of work to do. We have to look at payment reform. We incentivize the wrong things. There are incentives for procedures but there are not appropriate incentives for communication, information sharing, and care coordination, all of which are really important. These approaches are essential for a patient-centered medical home to be cost-efficient.”
Beverley H. Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Patient and Family-Centered Care.
 
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  "CMC [children with medical complexities] see a median of 13 different outpatient physicians and 6 different subspecialists and have a very high 30-day readmission rate ranging from 12.6% to 23.7%, as compared to an unadjusted readmission rate for all hospitalized children
of 6.5%."

 
 
  Excerpted from: Medical Home News,  Volume 10 Number 5, May 2018, "Using The Medical Home For Treating Children With Medical Complexities," by Amber Hoffman and Ingrid Larson.  
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Advanced primary care, such as Patient-Centered Medical Homes, transform the systems and culture of practice to meet the needs of patients. Leading innovators are taking the next step, by integrating care with important community-based services—such as behavioral health, social support services, and community health workers. These partnerships create additional tools to support patients, especially those who are high risk and/or high cost. On this webinar, attendees heard about leading efforts to support this patient-centered care from clinicians, a community-based organization, and a health insurance provider.

 
 
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  JABFM: 10 Strategies for Addressing the Challenges of PCMH Implementation

1. expanding access through care teams
2. preventing unnecessary emergency department visits through patient outreach
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Notes: from an article entitled, "Strategies for Addressing the Challenges of Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation: Lessons from Oregon," by Sherril Gelmon, DrPH, Nicole Bouranis, MA, Billie Sandberg, PhD and Shauna Petchel, MPH

Source: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, May/June 2018
 
     
 
This Month in Medical Home News
 
  • Study Suggests ACOs Are Not Assigning Enough Primary Care Visits To Chronically Ill Patients by Ron Shinkman
  • Using The Medical Home For Treating Children With Medical Complexities by Amber Hoffman and Ingrid Larson
  • Editor’s Corner: The Patient-Centered Medical Home Costs Too Much And Could Use Some Fixes
  • Medical Home Quotes
  • Industry News with briefs regarding: BlueCross BlueShield Association; NCQA; Council of Accountable Physician Practices and The District of Columbia
  • Catching Up With … Beverley H. Johnson
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