Voters Want the Patient-Centered Primary Care to be a Key Component in Fixing Health Care
New Survey Finds Voters Want Next U.S. President
to Make Patient-Centered Primary Care a Key Component in Fixing Health Care
WASHINGTON — As Election Day nears, Americans want their next President to support a patient-centered medical home as part of their health care reform agenda. A new survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative found that support for the major presidential candidates’ health care plans surges when the patient-centered medical home model is included.
PCPCC Pilot Projects
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The Patient Centered Medical Home compilation of pilot and demonstration projects 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 pilot projects PDF. Your information will not be shared with other entities and will be used only for future pilot project releases.
October 17th 2008 - Annual Summit Agenda
Healthy Momentum:
The Patient-Centered Medical Home Summit
October 17, 2008
9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Renaissance Hotel
999 Ninth Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
PCPCC releases health plan purchasing guide for employers - goal to advance medical home
Guide provides supporting research, action steps, contracting language and sample RFI language for employers/purchasers
Washington, DC July 16, 2008 Today the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), a coalition representing the country's national business leaders, consumer groups, organizations representing primary care physicians and other health care stakeholders, released its Purchaser Guide to the patient-centered medical home (PCMH). The Purchaser Guide is a handbook for understanding the medical home model and taking action to advance its implementation.
The PCPCC is organized and financed to provide better outcomes for patients, more efficient payment to physicians and better value, accountability and transparency to purchasers and consumers. Studies of the PCMH model show that it improves patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes. It also lowers health care costs by improving care coordination and communication between primary care physicians and their patients.
NASHP/PCPCC July Medicaid Summit Agenda, Presentations, Announcement
Click Here for Medical Home Summit Agenda and Powerpoints
Eight state Medicaid teams selected to meet in Washington, D.C. for summit to advance Patient Centered Medical Home model
July 24-25 Medical Home Summit joint initiative of the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative and National Academy for State Health Policy
July 16th, 2008 - Stakeholders' Meeting, Washington, D.C.
To register Online click HERE or on the image above. Click here for hotel information.
PCPCC Names Wal-Mart's Agwunobi and McKesson's Nace Co-Chairs of Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange
