Measuring the Cost of the Patient-Centered Medical Home

The Patient - Centered Medical Home

1. Classify medication use and safety issues within primary care. 2. Explore how pharmacists engage with patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models. 3. Demonstrate the compatibilities between pharmacist-provided medication management services and PCMH principles. 4. Justify the integration of a pharmacist-led medication therapy management (MTM) program within a PCMH model. 5. Analyze advantage...

Incremental Cost Estimates for the Patient-centered Medical Home

Despite wide and growing interest in the medical home approach, little is known about the costs it entails. This analysis uses data from some three dozen practices to analyze the relationship, if any, between costs and medical home activities. The cost data are from the Medical Group Management Association Cost Survey and from the American College of Physicians Practice Management Check Up Tool...

Patient-Centered Medical Home

Medical student awareness of the Patient-centered Medical Home.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) has come to the forefront of primary care practice redesign and can potentially improve health care outcomes and reduce costs. There are several initiatives in medical schools to teach concepts of the PCMH to students, but it is unknown what knowledge and attitudes medical students currently possess. We report students' awarenes...

The patient-centered medical home solution to the cost-quality conundrum.

The U.S. healthcare system has been plagued by rising costs while achieving relatively poor-quality outcomes, and the situation continues to worsen. One solution is the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of primary care. This model focuses on care coordination and development of long-term physician-patient relationships that are expected to lead to better quality care and higher rates o...