Patient Centered Medical Home News and Resources for Healthcare

What Is Value-Based Care, What It Means for Providers?

March 2, 2022 - Value-based care is a form of reimbursement that ties payments for care delivery to the quality of care provided and rewards providers for both efficiency and effectiveness. This form of reimbursement has emerged as an alternative and potential replacement for fee-for-service reimbursement, which pays providers retrospectively for services delivered based on bill charges or annual fee...

Standalone ACOs Saved More Than Hybrid Medical Home Models

July 09, 2020 by Jacqueline LaPointe

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) both saved money compared to standard care, but combining the alternative payment and care delivery models did not lead...

High-Cost Utilization Persists Despite PCMH Implementation

March 10, 2020 by Jacqueline LaPointe

A study of the Veterans Health Administration’s patient-centered medical home (PCMH) implementation found no association between progress with the alternative care delivery model and high-cost...

54% of Physicians Participate in an Accountable Care Organization

September 24, 2019 by Jacqueline LaPointe

The majority of physicians now participate in an accountable care organization (ACO), the American Medical Association (AMA) recently reported. Overall, 53.8 percent of physicians polled in September...

Cost Savings Unclear for Medicaid Alternative Payment Models

August 22, 2017 by Jacqueline LaPointe

Alongside Medicare and private payers, states are making the switch to value-based reimbursement, but states and independent researchers have yet to demonstrate the impact of Medicaid alternative...

Health Center Work Conditions Drop After Practice Transformation

August 08, 2017 by Jacqueline LaPointe

Improving work conditions for clinicians and staff members may be key to implementing practice transformations for value-based care in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), a new Health Affairs...

Making a Business Case for the Patient-Centered Medical Home

July 24, 2017 by Jacqueline LaPointe

Transforming primary care practices to patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) and maintaining National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recognition cost a large physician network about $2.5...