Building medical homes: lessons from eight states with emerging programs
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- Kaye, Neva. Buxbaum, Jason. Takach, Mary. Commonwealth Fund. National Academy for State Health Policy (U.S.)
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, [2011]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Models, Organizational Patient-Centered Care -- economics Primary Health Care -- economics Program Development Financing, Government Health Care Costs Outcome Assessment (Health Care) Patient Satisfaction Patient-Centered Care -- standards Program Evaluation Quality Assurance, Health Care -- methods Quality Assurance, Health Care -- standards Reimbursement, Incentive Single-Payer System State Government Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Many states are strategically engaging public and private payers in the design of medical home programs as a means of achieving better health outcomes, increasing patient satisfaction, and lowering per capita health care costs. The eight states profiled in this report--Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia--are at different stages in the development and implementation of a medical home program and have relied on different strategies to encourage primary care providers to adopt the model, including developing state medical home qualification standards instead of adopting national standards. As a whole, their experiences demonstrate that states can play a critical role in convening stakeholders, helping practices improve performance, and addressing antitrust concerns that arise when multiple payers come together to create a medical home program.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101574391 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101574391