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Thursday, November 6th, 11:00AM EST Call Agenda

Wed, 11/05/2008 - 4:05pm — rugrinic

 

 
This is a reminder to those who are available that on Thursday November 6th at 11:00am EST we will hold a call for the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative. Welcome to those who are on the list for the first time this week. Please forward this on to anyone we may have omitted.
 
Thursday, November 6th, 11:00 am Eastern Standard Time
 
Call in number 218.339.2626
Passcode 754440#
 
Please mute your telephone unless you are speaking. We have had some issues with background noise causing interference with the sound quality of our calls recently due to the growing numbers of participants on these conference calls.
 
New Conference Call-In Phone Number Starting November 13th
 
Note:  Due to technical issues, we will be changing our teleconferencing system in the near future.
 
New Call in number is 712-432-3900
Passcode is 471334
Moderator code is 406354. 
 
We will first be using this new phone service and number on all calls on and after November 13th.
 
If you have not registered to recieve this newsletter, follow this link and there is an easy registration process on our website.  Additionally, the previous national Thursday call agendas are listed on this page.
 
Please note that all of the attachments are linked at the bottom of the agenda.
 
I. Collaborative Announcements
 
A. Group Medical Appointments - Zeev Neuwirth, M.D. - Speaker
 
Dr. Zeev Neuwirth of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates will briefly speak on the call regarding the growing movement of group medical appointments.  For supporting documents on the topic, please find an related article by Dr. Edward Noffsinger attached at the end of the agenda.
 
B. CMS Medicare Medical Home Demonstration
 
On October 28th, from 2:00-4:00PM EST, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted an Open Door Forum (ODF) on the Center's Medicare Medical Home Demonstration (MMHD) project.
 
For more information on the October 28th Special Open Door Forum on CMS' Medicare Medical Home Demonstration project, please click here.
 
To view the PowerPoint slides for the October 28th Special Open Door Forum, please click here.
 

C. Medical Home Audioconference, November 11th

 
On November 11th, from 1-2:30 PM, Health Care Update New Service will be holding a CMS Medical Home Audioconference, on the Medical Home Demonstration Projects Update.  Dr. Paul Grundy, Chairman of the PCPCC will be one of the faculty on hand to speak.  For agenda, materials and registration options, please visit the Medical Home Audioconferences site by clicking here.
 
D. PCPCC/NASHP State Roles in Multi-Payer Medical Home Pilots - November 12th
 
This is the third in a series of web seminars on the patient centered medical home concept and the value it brings to primary care. This program will focus on existing multi-payer medical home pilot programs, covering defining characteristics of each, reimbursement methodologies, how the pilots are supporting practice transformation, and the state role in the effort.  This event is due to a grant from the Commonwealth Fund.

For more information, including agenda and registration link, please click here.

E. Annual PCPCC Summit
 
PCPCC held their Annual Summit in Washington, DC on October 17th at the Renaissance Hotel. This was the PCPCC’s annual fall meeting where members and stakeholders from across the country gather in Washington D.C. The Summit featured a series of panel discussions on topics ranging from financial models to support the PCMH, its role in the health reform debate and electoral politics, its benefits to the consumer, and an international perspective on primary care.
 
The agenda from the event is on our website.  Please click here to view it. 
 
You can view brief biographies on all the speakers and moderators by clicking here.

PowerPoint presentations from the speakers can be downloaded here.
 

F. Patient-Centered Medical Home: Building Evidence and Momentum, A Compendium of PCMH pilot and demonstration projects

The Pilot Project Guide is now online and available for download.  Please click here to sign-up and download the document.

G. Consumers & Patients

We have added a section onto our website, called "Consumers & Patients".  We hope that this new link will be a great resource for anyone visiting our website.  Currently in our Consumers section, we focus on the following four items:

i. Harris Poll Findings Summary

We are now pleased to have a summary of findings from the Harris Poll Survey and a press release discussing the results availabe online.  For more information, please click here.

ii. Center for Advancement of Health Consumer Guide

The Supporting Patient-Engagement in Patient-Centered Medical Home document is available for all to download. Simply provide us your name, company, and email address so that if there are supplemental guides or implementation calls we can alert you.  Once you complete the short form below you will immediately be provided a link to the Support PCMH PDF.  To download, please click here.

iii. Consumer Guide to E-Prescribing

The eHealth Initiative Foundation, are pleased to present "A Consumer's Guide to E-Prescribing".  This guide is designed to educate key stakeholders about e-prescribing and the steps involved in its adoption. The guide, written for consumers
and health care payers, complements the eHealth Inititative Foundation's June 2008 report “Electronic Prescribing: Becoming Mainstream Practice”.

To view the full version of  "A Consumer's Guide to E-Prescribing" please click here.

iv. Family Centered Care Resources

The Institute for Family Centered Care has put together a resource guide for the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.  They have directed us to primary care resources from the Institute's website.  To view more information, please click here. 

iv. Measuring Patient Experience

"Practice Measurement: A New Approach for Demonstrating the Worth of Your Work", from the American Academy of Family Physicians is now available for download.  For a complete document download, please click here.

v. ABIM Foundation Brief - Patient Charter

In the spring of 2008, physician groups, health plans, consumer organizations and employers agreed upon a set of national principles to govern physician reporting programs. Embodied in the “Patient Charter,” these principles constitute an initial consensus among stakeholders who have historically differed around a voluntary approach to reporting on physician performance.  For more information, please click here.

vi.  Today's Health Care vs. Medical Home Care

Click here for an interesting PowerPoint slide from Dr. Daniel Duffy of the School of Community Medicine in Tulsa Oklahamo, illustrating the key disparities between the healthcare in our nation today compared to Medical Home care.

 II. Engaging the Consumer (Family, Patient, Employee, Community, Etc.)

 
The Executive Committee through strategic planning has decided to organize a meeting with consumer advocacy groups.  We hope to use this meeting to develop consumer engagement deliverables for the four centers.  There will be a follow up press release after the meeting.  Before we schedule this summit, we would like to identify and catalog currently available consumer PCMH resources.  After we go through this process, then it will be easier to determine which materials are missing. 
 
We are starting to build a consumer PCMH resource center on our website and would like to serve as a national resource for multi-stake holder demonstration projects and other interested parties.  Therefore, we are requesting a call for all PCMH consumer materials that are publically available.  We are looking for the following types of materials: brochures, patient/physician agreements, webinars, patient feedback surveys, best practice guidelines, focus group results, explantory films, PCMH tagline ideas and model employee communications.
 
Also, we are looking to identifiy all of the PCMH engaged consumer groups that should be included in such a strategy session.  Please contact Edwina Rogers directly with your ideas and/or materials at (erogers@eric.org) or at 202-789-1400.
 
We have heard from many consumer groups that would like to get more engaged in the Patient-Centered Medical Home movement and we continute to identify others.  Our intial list is attached at the end of this agenda.  Please review it and let Edwina Rogers, at erogers@eric.org or 202-789-1400, know who is missing.

III. Important Links

 
 
 
July 24/25 Medicaid Summit Materials:
 
IV. 2009 Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative Meeting Dates
 
  • Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - Washington D.C., Stakeholder Meeting
  • Thursday, July 16, 2009 - Washington D.C., Stakeholder Meeting
  • Thursday October 22, 2009 - Washington D.C., Annual Summit
V. Collaborative Outreach
 
The Collaborative would like to welcome the following groups as the newest signing members of the PCPCC: 
  • Maven Solutions
  • MedCommons
  • Transformation Health Solutions, LLC
  • Westcoast Access to Children's Health (WATCH)
We now have 304 signing members.
 
Additionally, please find the newest Signers document attached at the bottom of this week’s agenda.
 
VI. PCMH in the Press
 
"Evidence Shows Positive Outcomes from Greater Investment in Primary Care", Steve Raetzman - Watson Wyatt, Employee Benefit News.  To read the full article, please click here. 
 
Attached at the end of this agenda, please find a Media Relations Report, compiled by Health2Resources, detailing Media Reach and Circulation of articles referencing Patient-Centered Medical Homes, in the month of October 2008.
 
VII.  PCPCC Centers 
 
In order to make best use of our membership base and resources the Collaborative has restructured, our various task forces and projects into more formal Centers. This transition has shifted the scope of work for the Collaborative and expanded the mandates for the various subgroups. Below, please find a brief list of the functions for the Centers, for a more detailed descriptions and goals of each Center please follow the linked Center names.
 
For more information please contact Relja Ugrinic at rugrinic@pcpcc.net or call 703.585.9165.
  • Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstration: Identify community-based sites to test and evaluate the concept; share information and best practices about pilots within a collaborative community; and serve as the connector to technical, quality improvement and education resources to facilitate ongoing demonstrations.
  • Center to Promote Public Payer Implementation: Assist public payers as they implement and refine programs to embed the Patient Centered Medical Home model by offering technical assistance; sharing best practices and giving guidance on the development of successful funding models.
  • Center for Health Benefit Redesign and Implementation: Create standards and buying criteria to serve as a guide and tool for large and small employers/purchasers in order to build the market demand for adoption of the Medical Home model.
  • Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange: Evaluate use and application of information technology to support and enable the development and broad adoption of information technology in private practice and among community practitioners.
A. Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstration
 
So far on these calls, we have received updated information from medical home projects in various stages of development across the country. Some groups have been working on practice transformation, and assisting physicians to provide services called for in the joint principles. Others have involved payers and are working to develop a system of reimbursement that uses quality measurement tools to combine a performance component to physician reimbursement.
 
On Tuesday, November 4th, CMD had a call featuring:
  • An Update on PCPCC Strategic Planning Initiative;
  • Strategic Planning for the CMD; and
  • Proposed Pilot Site Participation for Upcoming Purchaser Guide Webinars. 
The agenda and presentation materials from the last CMD call can be found here.
 
To register to recieve CMD emails, please click here. 
For more information please contact Relja Ugrinic at rugrinic@pcpcc.net or call 703.585.9165.

B. Center to Promote Public Payer Implementation
 
With the expansion of the former State Medicaid Working Group this Center is currently in the process of reassessing our short and long-term goals. We plan to retain our current focus on state Medicaid programs, however we also plan on approaching implementation of the PCMH model in public payer programs from the perspective of the state as an employer, and federal health programs such as Medicare and the Veterans Administration.
 
On Tuesday, November 4th, the Center to Promote Public Payer Implementation had a call to discuss a couple of items.  Topics of interest were:
  • Status of Department of Defense Medical Home Movement;
  • Medicare Demonstration Projects;
  • Office of Personnel Management Federal Employee Program Update;
  • Federal Health Reform Efforts; and
  • Approaching CMS Regarding Medical Home Concept

To view the full agenda, please click here.

If you are interested in learning more about current medical home projects within the Medicaid systems please click this link for a resource produced by our partners at the National Academy for State Health Policy.
 
Additionally, if you visit the CPPI site, you can view information on CMS' Medicare Medical Home Demonstrations, or you can click here to view the information.
 
For more information please contact Relja Ugrinic at rugrinic@pcpcc.net or call 703.585.9165.
 
To register to recieve CPPI emails, please click here. 

C. Center for Health Benefits Redesign and Implementation
  
At the July 16th Stakeholders' Working Meeting the Collaborative released the final version of the Purchaser Guide that we have been working on for the past few months. The Purchaser Guide is a handbook for understanding the medical home model and taking action to advance its implementation. Please find the press release and download link here.
 
On October 1, at 3pm EST, Michael Bailit was featured in a FocusOnCall concerning the PCMH Purchasers Guide.  The agenda and speaker powerpoint can be obtained by clicking here.
  
Check here to access two new important documents about making the business case for models such as the Patient-Centered Medical Home provided to the Collaborative from the National Business Group on Health. For more information please contact Relja Ugrinic at rugrinic@pcpcc.net or call 703.585.9165.
 
On the October 29th phone call, the Center tackles the following issues:
          Review Survey Results from October 17th Conference;
          Discuss how we can assist NBCH in distributing survey at their conference;
          Update 5 Purchaser's Guide Webinars to be conducted in the next 7 months; and
          Create "Buyers Resource Center"
 
To view the agenda for the CBRI call held on Wednesday, October 29th at 3:00PM EST, please click here. 
 
To register to recieve CBRI emails, please click here. 
 
D. Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange

The Center for eHealth Information Exchange and Adoption will serve a number of related functions. The first will to be act as a clearinghouse for information concerning the national development of various Health Technology system platforms and electronic delivery platforms for medical records. The second task is to coordinate national education concerning the importance of HIT/EMR developments to both providers and consumers of health care. The final task of the Center will be to elucidate the integral role of HIT/EMR development within the specific context of the Patient Centered Medical Home model and expand upon the provision with the Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home as agreed to by the ACP, AAFP, AOA, and AAP.
 
The Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange last spoke on Thursday October 9th at 1:00pm EST.  A key issue at hand was the advancement and availability of electronic medical records.  The group also had the Co-Chairs of the three subgroups report out to the call on any updates in their repsective fields.
  
For those who are interested in participating with this Center, please contact Chris Nohrden (nohrden@us.ibm.com).
 
To register to recieve CeHIA emails, please click here. 
 
VIII. Meetings
 
Upcoming Meetings
  • Julie Ingoglia, Program Manager, Community Health, NACHO, November 10th, 1PM
  • Sharon Moffatt, Chief of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, 2231 Crystal Drive Suite 450, Arlington, VA 22202, November 12th 10AM
Recently Completed Meetings  
  • Dr. Norman Wetterau, American Society of Addictive Medicine, 1400 L Street, NW Suite 250, November 5th, 4PM
  • Maureen Mitchell, Convener, MAPRX Coalition, 2000 L Street, NW Suite 710, November 5th, 10:30 AM
  • Dr. Elizabeth Duke, Administrator, HRSA October 23rd 3:30pm, Rockville, MD
  • Shane Canfield, Executive Director, Council on Employee Benefits, October 24th, 3PM, PCPCC Offices, 1400 L Street, NW, Suite 350, Washington D.C., Phone Number: 703-549-6025
  • Kirsten Bernonio, Policy Director, Mental Health America; Sabrina Corlette, Health Policy Director, National Partnership for Women and Families; Mark Gorman, Online Advocacy, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship; Maureen Mitchell, Covener, MAP Rx, Lupus Foundation of America, Inc.; Shawn O'Neail, Associate Vice President, Federal Government Affairs, National Multiple Sclerosis Society; Julie Venners, Vice President, Government Relation, Lupus Foundation of America, Inc.; Janet S. McUlsky, Senior Director Alliance Development, Pfizer; Dr. Thomas Barsanti, Director Medical Policy, Coporate Affairs, Pfizer; Duane C. Putnam, Director National Employer Groups, Worldwide Pharmaceutical Operations, Pfizer; October 16th, 12:00 PM EST Washington D.C.
  • William Jessee, President and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association, October 15th 3pm; (Call-in Number: 218.339.2626; Passcode: 809212)
  • Beverly Johnson, Institute for Family-Centered Care, October 9th, 3pm, 7900 Wisconsin Ave, Suite 405., Bethesda, MD.  Phone Number: 301-652-0281
  • David Kendall, Senior Fellow for Health Policy, Progressive Policy Institute, October 8th, 5pm, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. Phone Number: 202-546-0007
  • Pat Libbey, Executive Director; Cindy Phillips, Senior Advisor for Community Health; and Michelle Chuk, Senior Advisor, Healthiest Nation Alliance, National Association of County and City Health Officials, October 1st, 12pm, 1100 17th Street, NW Suite 200, Washington, D.C.
  • Dr. Samuel Lin, American Medical Group Association, September 18, Lunch at Indigo
  • Billy Wynne, Senate Finance Committee, Sept 17, 3pm
  • Susan Edgman-Levitan, PA, Executive Director, The John Stoekle Center for Primary Care innovation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Sept. 8 2pm, PCPCC- 1400 L St. NW, Suite 350, Washington, D.C.
To Be Arranged / Follow Up
  • All Consumer, Community and Patient Advocacy groups
  • Partnership for Prevention
  • State Governments
  • Medicaid Officials
  • Insurance Commissioners
  • Sylvia Johnson, Legislative Representative – UAW
  • Council of State Governments
  • National Conference of State Legislators
  • Mario Lopez, Congressional Hispanic Conference
  • Andrew Crowshaw, HHS, integrating Secretary Leavitt’s Value Driven Health Care Program
  • Association of State and Territorial Health Organizations
  • Massachusetts Cost and Quality Council (Health Reform)
  • American Board of Family Medicine
  • American Board of Pediatrics
IX. General PCPCC Call Schedule

Below please find the dates for the various weekly Collaborative phone calls.
Please note that all Collaborative calls except the Executive Committee are held on the same conference call line. Call in number Dial in 218.339.2626 Passcode 754440.
Starting November 13th the call-in number will be: 712-432-3900.  The passcode will be 471334.  The moderator code will be 406354.
  • PCPCC Call – Thursday, 11 AM EST - This weekly call will continue to serve as the general Collaborative update. We will continue to use this call to provide PCPCC members with information drawn from all Collaborative efforts, and the efforts of our members. We will also be providing information on all upcoming PCPCC events on this call. 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18, 1/8, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26, 4/2, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14, 5/21, 5/28, 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/9, 7/23, 7/30, (no August calls), 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/15, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17
  • Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstration - Bi-weekly – Tuesday, 2 PM EST  11/18, 12/02, 12/16, 1/13, 1/27, 2/10, 2/24, 3/10, 3/24, 4/7, 4/21, 5/5, 5/19, 6/2, 6/16, 6/30, 7/14, 7/28, (no August calls), 9/8, 9/22, 10/6, 10/20, 11/3, 11/17, 12/1, 12/15
  • Center for Public Payer Implementation  – Tuesday, 3 PM EST

Federal Programs - 1st Tuesday of the month - 12/2, 1/6, 2/3, 3/3, 4/7, 5/5, 6/2, 7/7, (no August calls), 9/8, 10/6, 11/3, 12/1
Medicaid - 3rd Tuesday of the Month - 11/18, 12/16, 1/13, 2/17, 3/17, 4/21, 5/19, 6/16, 7/21, (no August calls), 9/15, 10/20, 12/15      

  • Center for Health Benefits Redesign and Implementation – Bi-weekly - Wednesday, 3 PM EST - 11/12, 12/10, 1/7, 1/21, 2/4, 2/18, 3/4, 3/18, 4/1, 4/15, 4/29, 5/13, 5/27, 6/10, 6/24, 7/8, 7/22, (no August calls), 9/16, 9/30, 10/14, 10/28, 11/11, 12/9
  • Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange – Monthly - Thursday, 1 PM EST - 2nd Thursday of the Month - 11/13, 12/11, 1/8, 2/12, 3/12, 5/14, 6/11, 7/9, (no August calls), 9/10, 10/8, 11/12, 12/10
  • Legislative Committee – (Thursday, 3 PM EST) Dates TBA
  • Executive Committee Call – Monthly – 4:00-5:30 pm EST, 11/18 (no December call). (In 2009, the PCPCC Officers will be convening on a monthly basis while the full executive committee will be meeting quarterly.) 1/27, 2/24, 3/24 (full executive committee), 4/21, 5/19, 6/23 (full executive committee), 7/28, (no August call), 9/22 (full executive committee), 10/27, 11/17 (full executive committee), (no December call)
X.  Executive Committee

There are 36 members of the Executive Committee: Aetna; Alere; American Academy of Family Physicians; American Academy of Pediatrics; American College of Physicians; American Osteopathic Association; BlueCross BlueShield; The Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan, Inc.; CIGNA; CVS Caremark; DMAA: Care Continuum Alliance; the Dow Chemical Company; EHE International; ERIC, GlaxoSmithKline; Health Care Services Corporation; Healthways; Humana, Inc.; IBM; Kaiser Permanente; McKesson Corporation; Medco; Merck; Microsoft; Novartis; Pfizer; PhRMA; Priority Health; Sanofi-Aventis; Taconic IPA, Inc.; TransforMED; UnitedHealthcare; Universal American Corp.; Walgreens; Wal-Mart; and Wellpoint.
                      
XI. Officers
 
Chair
Paul Grundy, MD, IBM
 
Vice Chairs
American Academy of Family Physicians: Doug Henley
American Academy of Pediatrics: Fan Tait
American College of Physicians: John Tooker
American Osteopathic Association: John Crosby
 
Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstration
Co-Chairs: Sally Bleeks, BCBSA; Julie Schilz, Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative; Shari Erickson, American College of Physicians; John Swanson, American Academy of Family Physicians
 
Center to Promote Public Payer Implementation
Co-Chairs: Terry McInnis, GlaxoSmithKline; Allen Dobson, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, retired; Jijo James, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Pfizer Health Solutions
Federal Programs Chair: Gary Jacobs, Universal American Corp.
State Medicaid Chair: Lesley Reeder, Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
 
Center for Health Benefit Redesign and Adoption
Co-Chairs: Cecily Hall, Microsoft and Duane Putnam, Pfizer, Inc.
Co-Vice Chairs – Mark Ugoretz, The ERISA Industry Committee, Helen Darling, National Business Group on Health, and Andrew Webber, National Business Coalition on Health
Executive Director - Robert A. Dribbon, Merck & Company
 
Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange
Co-Chairs: John Agwunobi, Wal-Mart; David Nace, McKesson Corporation
Subgroup Leaders: Thom Khun, American College of Physicians; David Kibbe, American Academy of Family Physicians, and Terry McGeeney, TransforMED Inc.
Executive Director - Chris Nohrden, IBM
 
Collaborative Directors
Executive Director – Edwina Rogers erogers@eric.org, 202.789.2577
Director of Operations and External Affairs - Relja Ugrinic rugrinic@pcpcc.net 703.585.9165
Director of Policy - Rohan Beesla, rbeesla@eric.org, 202.789.2577
Director of Membership - Kelli Pedas, kpedas@pcpcc.net
 
XII. Advisory Board

There are 13 member organizations of the advisory board and they are: AARP, American Board of Internal Medicine, Brian Klepper, Bridges to Excellence, The Center for Excellence In Primary Care, The Center for the Advancement of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, HR Policy Association, the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation Massachusetts General Hospital, the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, National Business Coalition on Health, National Business Group on Health, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance. We are considering additional advisory board representatives from state based groups and labor organizations.

XIII. NASHP/PCPCC Joint Medicaid Taskforce

Before the recess, the PCPCC and the National Academy for State Health Policy, funded by a grant from the Commonwealth Fund successful convened a two-day meeting of state public health teams interested in sharing experiences and learning about the patient-centered medical home. The meeting featured a series of expert speakers on topics ranging from HIT support, to orchestrating pilots, and involving private sector partnership. Materials from the meeting and further details are available at NASHP’s website.
 
The third joint webcast will be held on November 12th from 1-2:30pm EST, which will focus on private sector demonstration projects, and how state public health programs can and should participate.
For more information, including agenda and registration link, please click here.
 
For the full presentations and the resources from the July 24-25th meeting please check NASHP's website here.

XIV. Inclusion of the Medical Home Concept in Health Reform Efforts

One of the major projects PCPCC staff is engaged in at the moment is meeting with advocates of various health reform proposals in this election year, and discussing the role that the Medical Home might play in those proposals. This includes meeting with a variety of organizations and advocates, including:
  • Employer Trade Associations such as HR Policy Association, the Federation of American Hospitals, the Business Round Table, and the ERISA Industry Committee;
  • Think Tanks such as The Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, The New America Foundation, The Urban Institute, The Hudson Institute, and the American Enterprise Institute;
  • Presidential Candidates;
  • Plans developed by Congressional representatives: The Healthy Americans Act sponsored by Senators Wyden and Bennet, H.R.5348 introduced by Representatives Langevin and Shays, or Representative Pete Stark;
  • Midwest Regional Reform Effort – 8 states; each state has a group and there is a Regional Group

To read the online version of the health reform insert please click here.

Patient-Centered Medical Home Statements of Support

The PCMH Statements of Support document is available for download.  Please click here to be directed to the attachment.

XV. PCPCC Consultants
 
A. Website

If you have any questions, concerns, or difficulty in using the website please contact our webdesigner Loren Vandegrift (Loren@songlinedesign.com).
 
B. Legal

We are happy to announce that the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative has received notification on approval for our 501(c)(6) tax exempt status.
 
We are still waiting on confirmation for the nonprofit foundation 501(c)(3) Patient Centered Primary Care Foundation. Both entities have the appropriate papers filed in DC for incorporation, IRS employer identification numbers received and bank accounts opened at Eagle Bank on K Street.
 
The Collaborative has retained Robin Johnson, of Balch & Bingham LLP (rjohnson@balch.com), as legal counsel.

C. Public Relations

Health2 Resources is our public relations firm for the PCPCC. They have already done significant work to promote the activities of the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative.
 
If you have any questions concerning our PR work please feel free to contact any PCPCC staff member or Katie Capps at (kcapps@health2resources.com).
 
D. Membership

As members of the Collaborative, you are aware of the amazing rate of growth the PCPCC has undergone over the past year. To assist us in maximizing our efforts to expand our membership base, and to reach out to other major organizations dealing with health reforms or new reimbursement systems we have hired Kelli Moler Pedas as our membership consultant. Kelli Pedas can be reached at kpedas@pcpcc.net.
 
E. Accounting and Bookkeeping

Jon B. Deane
Murphy Deane & Company, PLC
703.796.1041
jon.dean@mdctax.com
 
Evelyn DeBardelaben
edebardelaben@charter.net
 
F. Event Planning
 
Peggy Ross
Independent Event Planner
Corporate-Social
peggyross@verizon.net
 
XVI. Legislative Issues and Hearings
 
Sept. 16, 2008:  The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing entitled “Aligning Incentives: The Case for Delivery System Reform.”  There were a number of witnesses at the hearing including Mark E. Miller of the Medicare Payment Advisory Comission, Robert Berenson of the Urban Institute in Washington DC and Eric G. Campbell of Harvard University's School of Medicine.  Also speaking at the hearing was Glenn Steele, the President and CEO of Geisinger Health System.
  
For more information concerning Hearings, Hill briefings, or legislative developments surrounding the PCMH please check this the Collaborative's Legislative Events section here.
 
"Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report", American Medical Association Holds Meetings to Discuss Medicare Physician Payment Fix, October 28,2008, Kaiser Network.  To view the full article, please click here.
 
"Kennedy secretly crafts health care plan", October 24th, 2008, Washington Times. To view the full article, please click here.
 
Grant Funding

The PCPCC looks forward to working with interested parties in constructing proposals to secure additional grant funding from institutions looking to support both public and private sector Medical Home research and demonstrations.
 
There may be an opportunity at CMS’s Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for some community grants. The information is linked below, and we hope anybody with knowledge of the HRSA’s goals and projects, or people who have worked with that organization in the past can coordinate strategy with the PCPCC staff to submit a strong application for that grant. It seems they are specifically focused on the Medical Home:
 
 
We are developing a target list of organizations such as the Commonwealth Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and numerous employer foundations for future collaboration on projects surrounding the Medical Home concept.
 
We are currently looking to hire a professional grant writer to work with the PCPCC on these efforts.
 
Upcoming Conferences and Events
  • November 23-25 - DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance will be holding The Forum 08 in Hollywood, Florida at the Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa. For more details please check this link.
  • December 2-3 – World Health Congress Executive Forum on the Advanced Medical Home for Employers will be held in Washington, DC. For more information check the following link.
  • January 22; February 27 - The Health Action Council Ohio has invited Edwina Rogers to give the keynote address at their two annual meetings to be held in Ohio.  For more information please click here.
  • February 3-5 - 4th Annual Health and Human Capital Congress will be held in Washington, D.C. For more information, please click here.
  • March 2-3 - National Medical Home Summit will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Philadephia, PA.  For more information, please click here.

 

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