Practitioners, payers, and patients alike increasingly recognize the need for the PCMH in the United States, especially as reform efforts seek to control costs and improve quality of care delivery.

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 ...

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 ...

Leadership may well be the most important facet of the PCMH and can determine the success or failure of the enterprise. [8] Leadership has several different definitions within the PCMH. Leadership is ...

Tampa, Fla.-based WellCare Health Plans has announced it will offer incentives for the use of the patient-centered medical home model in its Georgia Medicaid provider network. WellCare will provide ...

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 ...

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 Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) healthcare model integrates mental health providers and physicians under one system. This model focuses on improved patient experience, favorable mental health ...

Healthcare reform will emphasize the medical home model, but the nation may not have enough primary care doctors to handle the workload, according to a study by the University of Michigan Health ...

So you're not a "10" in every which way. But you're probably pretty spectacular in some way, and definitely good enough in most areas of life. If ever there were a time to stop beating yourself up for ...