Medical Homes news and information

The Oregon Health Authority released its benchmark-setting report tracking the progress of the state's Medicaid transformation program, which is projected to save $11 billion over the next 10 years.
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The CMS Innovation Center will apply a more focused approach for the second round of the healthcare reform law's Health Care Innovation Awards that the agency announced Wednesday.
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An eight-year initiative aimed at improving healthcare quality and lowering costs has entered its final phase, and its director says the project's lessons could serve as best practices for healthcare providers across the nation.
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Health systems in eight more states have started implementing a “medical neighborhood” demonstration project that is being piloted in 15 communities under a $20.75 million grant from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
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While the patient-centered medical home practice model continues to gain momentum, widespread adoption is dependent on restructuring payers' reimbursements. More specifically, in order for the model to work financially for medical practices, it's critical that they be paid for their care...
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Healthcare innovation doesn't happen overnight, or even within three years. Read about the Top 5 innovations happening in healthcare delivery right now.
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Specialists and medical societies are cheering the launch of a medical-home-type recognition program for specialty practices, an option they say will extend the emphasis on care coordination outside of primary care and ease communication among providers.
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Small primary-care pediatric practices might be disadvantaged when it comes to achieving designation as a medical home, according to a study conducted by C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Twenty-four states and Washington, D.C., have chosen a benchmark plan that will determine what insurers must cover in health plans sold in the state exchanges and individual and small-group markets.
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Karen DeSalvo, New Orleans' commissioner of health, describes how the devastation of Hurricane Katrina eventually led to the creation of patient-centered medical homes and advanced use of health records, in an interview with Andis Robeznieks, Modern Healthcare reporter at the HIMSS 2013 Annual...
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