Patient Centered Medical Homes: Are They the Right Choice?

Patient-centered medical homes: primer for pharmacists.

OBJECTIVE To provide a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) primer for pharmacists, including basic background information, key terminology, and examples of success stories. DATA SOURCES PCMH literature and resources obtained through search strategies by authors including but not limited to PubMed and Google Scholar. SUMMARY PCMHs are a potential means of achieving cost reduction in health ...

Psychologists in Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs)

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is an increasingly common model of health care delivery with many exciting opportunities for psychologists. The PCMH reflects a philosophy and model of care that is highly consistent with psychological science and practice. It strives to provide patient-centered, comprehensive, team-based, coordinated, accessible, and quality and safetyoriented health ca...

Assembling patient-centered medical homes--the care principles.

(Fam Med 2007;39(10):697-9.) The Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a model for providing patients with the services they need. It also reflects our core values, but the vision of the PCMH can seem rather abstract and perhaps unrealistic and unattainable. Is it really possible to create a PCMH? What do the principles (personal physician, physician-directed medical practice, whole-person or...

Assembling patient-centered medical homes--the clerkship initiative.

About half of the states are implementing patient-centered medical homes for their Medicaid populations.

Public and private payers are testing the patient-centered medical home model by shifting resources to enhance primary care as an important component of improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of the US health care delivery system. Medicaid has been at the forefront of this movement. Since 2006 twenty-five states have implemented new payment systems or revised existing ones so that primary...