Medical Home Bulletin
  Complimentary from the publishers of Medical Home News                October 17, 2012  
 
PCMH Outcomes and Cost Research: Important New Medical Home Findings
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Strengthening Primary Care
 
  

Strengthening Primary Care

Melinda Abrams, vice president for the Patient-Centered Coordinated Care Program, explains how primary care doctors visits' are changing. Abrams says the medical home—an approach to primary care supported by the Affordable Care Act— is improving access to high-care awhile lowering costs.


 		  
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HealthLeaders Media: 5 Big Ideas from WellPoint's PCMH Pilot

1 . Money matters: There is no delivery system reform without payment system reform.
2.  Coordinated care and care management: Physicians should focus on patient numbers and not just on numbers of patients.
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Source: HealthLeaders Media
Source URL: http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/page-5/HEP-284647/5-Big-Ideas-from-WellPoints-PCMH-Pilot

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This Month in Medical Home News
 
  • Joining our Patients Online --The Health Care Social Media Revolution by Farris K. Timimi, MD
  • The Adirondack Medical Home Demonstration by Bob Cawley
  • Editor’s Corner: Call to Action: Blended Payment Reforms - Glen Stream, MD, MBI, FAAFP
  • Practices Need to Help Patients Understand Medical Billing by Dan Rodrigues
  • Thought Leader’s Corner: There seems to be little doubt that the patient-centered medical home can affect the numerator of the value equation -- but less consensus about its ability to drive value by affecting the denominator. Where do you stand?
  • Industry News with briefs regarding AAFP, AANP, PCPCC, Blue Shield of California Foundation and Langer Research Associates, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, HRSA, Modern Healthcare and NCQA,and CMS
  • Catching up with … Robert Graham, MD
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