In a patient-level analysis of care at 56 sites in one region of the Veterans Health Administration, researchers reported no association between the widespread implementation of the patient-centered ...

The patient-centered medical home — a model of providing primary care in a physician office that involves care teams and health coaches — has spread far and wide in the last five years. Numbers to ...

Patient-centered medical homes in Maryland’s multipayer demonstration disrupted the pattern of recurrently high expenditure among the costliest patients and improved continuity of care. Objective: To ...

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) has grabbed the limelight as a new model of health care that offers an alternative to fragmented, impersonal and wasteful care that has become the norm ...

Feb. 19—Bassett Healthcare Network says 33 of its practices have been recognized by a national quality assurance organization. According to a Bassett media release, the practices have sustained their ...

SCRANTON – The Health Resources and Services Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recently awarded The Wright Center for Community Health with its Patient-Centered ...

He said the American College of Physicians advocates that the most effective way to re-align payment incentive to support the PCMH model would be to combine traditional fee-for-service for office ...

Sept. 11 -- WEDNESDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Many large physician groups in the United States lack the essential elements needed to create patient-centered "medical homes" designed to put ...

The success of a year-long pilot program of patient centered medical homes has prompted Pittsburgh, PA-based Highmark Inc. to broadly expand the initiative in two states. "Our goal is that in about a ...

With Medicare soon releasing a final rule on reducing hospital readmissions, hospitals need to strengthen their efforts in this endeavor. Hospitals with the highest rates of readmissions can face the ...