In a patient-level analysis of care at 56 sites in one region of the Veterans Health Administration, researchers reported no association between the widespread implementation of the patient-centered ...

Feb. 19—Bassett Healthcare Network says 33 of its practices have been recognized by a national quality assurance organization. According to a Bassett media release, the practices have sustained their ...

He said the American College of Physicians advocates that the most effective way to re-align payment incentive to support the PCMH model would be to combine traditional fee-for-service for office ...

Patient-centered medical homes in Maryland’s multipayer demonstration disrupted the pattern of recurrently high expenditure among the costliest patients and improved continuity of care. Objective: To ...

Health insurer Aetna has partnered with Consultants in Medical Oncology and Hematology, an independent oncology and hematology practice with four locations around the Philadelphia area, to launch a ...

The success of a year-long pilot program of patient centered medical homes has prompted Pittsburgh, PA-based Highmark Inc. to broadly expand the initiative in two states. "Our goal is that in about a ...

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) has grabbed the limelight as a new model of health care that offers an alternative to fragmented, impersonal and wasteful care that has become the norm ...

January 19, 2022 – A redesigned patient-centered medical home (PCMH) approach focusing on defined "high-value elements" (HVEs) does not reduce healthcare costs for patients at primary care practices, ...

WHAT: NCQA will host a briefing about its 2014 NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Recognition standards, launching March 24. Medical homes use teamwork and technology to improve quality and ...

Leadership may well be the most important facet of the PCMH and can determine the success or failure of the enterprise. [8] Leadership has several different definitions within the PCMH. Leadership is ...

Sept. 11 -- WEDNESDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Many large physician groups in the United States lack the essential elements needed to create patient-centered "medical homes" designed to put ...