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	“It does make sense that payers should support the costs of practice transformation because many improvements in care processes (like care transitions or same day scheduling) would likely result in cost efficiencies that would benefit the payers. But the problem with this argument is that it doesn’t work well in single payer medical home initiatives -- having a single payer (such as Medicaid) bear the costs of practice transformation results in other payers (including commercial carriers and Medicare) getting a free ride. Multi-payer medical home initiatives that include both public and private payers are the best vehicle to finance practice transformation.” Mary Takach, MPH, RN. Senior Program Director, National Academy for State Health Policy.
	In the second-year (2012) of one of the nation’s earliest, large-scale Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) programs, health care costs represented a savings of 2.7% on the total projected 2012 health care costs for PCMH-covered members and improved upon the 1.5% savings against projected costs registered by the program in 2011.
	Source:  Patient-Centered Medical Home Program Trims Expected Health Care Costs by $98 million in Second Year, CareFirst Press Release, June 6, 2013
	Health network launches storefront medical home FierceHealthcare, June 26, 2013
	NCQA certifies medical home experts Healthcare Finance News, June 25, 2013
	Estimating the Staffing Infrastructure for a Patient-Centered Medical Home American Journal of Managed Care, June 21, 2013
	Primary Care Finds a (Medical) Home
	HealthLeaders Media, June 13, 2013
	The Patient Centered Medical Home: How Well Will They Serve Non-English Speakers? CyraCom Blog, June 6, 2013
	PCMH Primary Care Practices: Crucial Component to Successful Medical Neighborhood Development and Implementation by Bruce Bagley, MD, FAAFP Top Three Obstacles to Primary Care by Alex Tolbert , MBA Editor’s Corner – Lessons from the Journey: Julie Schilz on Collaboration Keep Calm and Become a Medical Home by Mona Sweeney, RN, BSN Thought Leader’s Corner: “An op ed in the May/June Annals of Family Medicine by TransforMED Interim President and CEO Bruce Bagley, MD, FAAFP and Annals Associate Editor James M. Gill, MD, MPH argues that payers (public and private) should bear the transformation costs of patient-centered medical homes because most practices do not have the necessary resources and payers save more than they spend. Where do you stand?” Industry News with briefs regarding National Nursing Centers Consortium; American Association of Colleges of Nursing; PCPCC; Aetba, eClinicalWorks; Accenture; NCQA; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and GE Foundation; Sharp Healthcare and CVS Caremark Catching up with … Renee M. Turchl, MD, MPH 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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