On November 7th, 2007, the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative held its inaugural Call-to-Action Summit at Union Station’s Columbus Club. The event was well attended by over 200 representatives of large employers, physician groups, and health benefits companies. It featured a series of expert panels, and two keynote speakers, Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

The Summit generated significant press coverage, including The New York Times article by Milt Freudenheim, entitled “A Model for Health Care That Pays for Quality.” Dr. Paul Grundy, IBM's Director for Health Care Technology and Strategic Initiatives an the Chairman of the Collaborative, was quoted in the article, saying, "We are empowering doctors to once again have a doctor-patient relationship. Dr. Grundy added, "We don't want to buy the kind of care we're getting any more. We have turned doctors into little chipmunks on a wheel, pumping out patients every five minutes."

At the Summit, experts from all the pertinent stakeholders spoke about the work done so far on the Medical Home project. In the first panel, Bob Doherty, Senior Vice President for Government Relations with the American College of Physicians, introduced the Medical Home as a place where patients “choose to get care from a personal physician . . . [who] provides comprehensive and longitudinal care to address all of the patients’ health care, including preventive care.” He stressed that the physician “facilitates appropriate” specialist care, and does not act as a “gatekeeper.”

The independent health care quality oversight organization, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), previewed its highly anticipated system for accrediting and qualifying the medical home, which is due to be released in December. Dr. Greg Pawlson, Executive Vice President with NCQA, emphasized the need for a tool to measure a potential Medical Home by several different metrics.

Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative
Call-To-Action Summit Agenda

Medical Home: Restructuring Reintegrating
Health Care Around The Patient

Updating the Primary Care Payment Model to Reflect

 Value-Based Purchasing and Patient Needs

The Columbus Club
At Union Station
50 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
8:00 am – 3:30 pm (Eastern)

8:00 – 8:30A.M.         Registration And Continental Breakfast Buffet

8:30 – 8:45A.M.       Collaborative Leaders

*  Conference Overview

Edwina Rogers, Executive Director, Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative; Vice President, Health Policy, The ERISA Industry Committee

*  Welcoming Commentary

Paul Grundy, MD, Chairman, Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative; Director of Healthcare Technology and Strategic Initiatives, IBM

David Dale, MD, President, American College of Physicians

Paul Martin, DO, Member, Bureau on Federal Health Programs, American Osteopathic Association

Vera (Fan) Tait, MD, Associate Executive Director, American Academy of Pediatrics

James D. King, MD, President, American Academy of Family Physicians

8:45 – 9:30A.M.          Keynote Speaker And Working Breakfast

*  Real Change Requires Real Change: Transforming Health and Healthcare in America

Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and Chair of the Center for Healthcare Transformation

9:30 – 10:15A.M.        What Is The Medical Home?

*  Defining The Medical Home

Robert B. Doherty, Senior Vice President, Governmental Affairs and Public Policy, American College of Physicians

*  Reception to medical home concept among business decision makers, policymakers and consumers

Mark Mellman, President and CEO, The Mellman Group

10:15 – 10:30A.M.      Morning Break

10:30 – 11:15A.M.      Evidence ForThe Medical Home

*  Overwhelming Evidence

Douglas E. Henley, MD, Executive Vice President, American Academy of Family Physicians

*  Closing The Divide

Anne Beal, Assistant Vice President, The Commonwealth Fund

*  Making Patient Centered Care Real: Tools For Primary Care

Michael Barry, MD, Chief, General Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard University; Medical Editor, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making

11:15A.M. –                Qualifying The Medical Home / Recognition Process

12:00P.M.                   Greg Pawlson, MD, MPH, Executive Vice President, National Committee for Quality Assurance

David Dale, MD, President, American College of Physicians

James D. King, MD, President, American Academy of Family Physicians

Paul Martin, DO, Member, Bureau on Federal Health Programs, American Osteopathic Association

Paul Grundy, MD, Chairman, Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative; Director of Healthcare Technology and Strategic Initiatives, IBM

Vera (Fan) Tait, MD, Associate Executive Director, American Academy of Pediatrics

Samuel Nussbaum, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Wellpoint

12:00 – 1:15P.M.        Keynote Speaker And Working Lunch

Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI)

1:15 – 2:00P.M.          Implementing the Medical Home and Payment Reform

*  Overview Of Payment Model

Rosi Sweeney, Vice President for Public Policy and Practice Support, American Academy of Family Physician

*  Transforming Practices

Terry McGeeney, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, TransforMED Inc.

Michael Barr, MD, Vice President, Practice Advocacy and Improvement, American College of Physicians and Center for Practice Innovation

*  The Employer Perspective

Joseph M. Calomo, MBA, Pharm. D, R. Ph., Director of Strategy Walgreens Health Services

Glenn Stettin, Senior Vice President, Medco

Chris Ross, Chief Information Officer, MinuteClinic

2:00 – 2:45P.M.          Private Sector Medical Home Advancement

*  All Payer / All Player Pilot

Paul Grundy, MD, Chairman, Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative; Director of Healthcare Technology and Strategic Initiatives, IBM

*  What Is Happening Now

Carol Flamm, MD, MPH, Senior Medical Director, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Dawn Bazarko, RN, MPH, Executive Lead, Primary Care / ER Line of Service, UnitedHealth Group

*  Commonwealth Fund’s National Safety Net Pilot

Melinda Abrams, Senior Program Officer, The Commonwealth Fund       

2:45 – 3:30P.M.          Public Sector Medical Home Advancement

*  Medicare Pilots And Demonstration Projects

Linda Magno, Director of the Medicare Demonstration Program Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

                              *  Medicaid And SCHIP: The North Carolina Example

                                    Allen Dobson, MD, Former Assistant Secretary and Medicaid Director, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

                              *  The Rhode Island Multi-Payer Demonstration

Deidre S. Gifford, MD, MPH, Rhode Island Chronic Care Sustainability Initiative

 3:30P.M.                     Adjourn