Practitioners, payers, and patients alike increasingly recognize the need for the PCMH in the United States, especially as reform efforts seek to control costs and improve quality of care delivery.

Accountable care organizations have an opportunity to gain knowledge in improving health outcomes, improving patient experience, and reducing costs by working closely with practices that have adopted ...

The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) healthcare model integrates mental health providers and physicians under one system. This model focuses on improved patient experience, favorable mental health ...

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 ...

Tampa, Fla.-based WellCare Health Plans has announced it will offer incentives for the use of the patient-centered medical home model in its Georgia Medicaid provider network. WellCare will provide ...

The president and CEO of a Midwest health foundation relates what she and colleagues have learned thus far from its initiative. Approximately seventy individuals, from hospital and clinic directors to ...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 20, 2017 - Data from more than 800 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) primary care clinics revealed that national implementation of a patient-centered medical home model was ...

The patient-centered medical home model aspires to fundamentally restructure care processes, but a volume-based payment system may hinder such transformations. In 2013 Oregon’s Medicaid program ...

One of the first, largest, and longest-running multipayer trials of patient-centered medical home medical practices in the United States was associated with limited improvements in quality and was not ...

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 ...

Diabetes, heart disease, depression, and other chronic diseases are on the rise. For someone living with a chronic disease, this often means more doctor appointments, more time with specialists, and ...

These measureable results reflect the remarkably simple concept behind PCMH, which is to proactively manage patient chronic care to reduce expensive episodic care. The results are healthier, engaged ...