» Purchaser's Guide: Patient Centered Medical Home
Purchaser's Guide: Patient Centered Medical Home
Site: http://www.pcpcc.net/employerguide.pdf
Published in 2008
The Purchaser's Guide presents six strategies for engaging purchasers in the advocacy and establishment of medical homes:
- participate in a regional pilot(s)
- incorporate PCMH into insurer procurement and performance assessment activity
- align payment strategy with PCMH adoption objectives
- build coalitions in support of PCMH
- engage consumers
- integrate PCMH into other corporate health strategies
Value for employers
Purchasers can pursue these strategies on their own, or join the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC). The Collaborative is tasked with implementing the patient centered medical home model, and has organized four "centers" to assist in carrying out the work. The centers include:
- Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstrations
- Center for Benefits Redesign and Implementation
- Center for eHealth Information Exchange and Adoption
- Center to Promote Public Payer Implementation
Additional information and resources may be found at the PCPCC web site (www.pcpcc.net/).
The Guide also includes a draft of Patient Centered Medical Home RFI for purchasers to use to assess the potential insurer's participation in establishment of medical home.
