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 ...

As the patient-centered medical home model continues to gain steam around the country, one insurer has embraced this type of delivery reform on a particularly large scale. Blue Cross Blue Shield of ...

Data from more than 800 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) primary care clinics revealed that national implementation of a patient-centered medical home model was effective at improving several ...

Despite many barriers, Grace Medical Home, a free clinic, achieved patient-centered medical home recognition in October 2014 through a focused team-based approach. Grace Medical Home is a faith-based ...

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.

Patients who receive care from a patient-centered medical home are more likely to take their medications, according to new research. The study, which was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, ...

"Large-scale adoption of the patient-centered medical home in the Veterans Health Administration is, in part, being implemented to improve patients' experience of care," the researchers write. "But ...

The Patient Centered Medical Home The American College of Physicians represents more than 141,000 internal medicine physicians and subspecialists and has developed, in collaboration with the American ...

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 ...

Preventable hospital readmissions cost the U.S. health care system an estimated $25 billion every year, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCooper’s Health Research Institute. A logical first step ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma (BCBSOK) is launching its patient-centered medical home (PCMH) in early 2010. With Oklahoma's growing primary care physician shortage and its bottom five national ...

PHOENIX & TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) company, and IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced plans for a collaboration with select primary-care physician practices ...