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The Patient Centered Medical Home, Medicare's Comprehensive Primary Care Intiative and Cost Neutrality

Like this, but with snow Oh my, he was really angry . Back when the teenage Population Health Blog was living in New York, our family had a ...

Health Policy Insights from the Medical Home Summit: Wellness, ACOs

The Opening Ceremony of The Medical Home Summit The Population Health Blog is back home after attending the intellectually rewarding Populat...

Health Care Cost Insights and Capitation for the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH)

The Population Health Blog finally caught up with the Oct 22/29 "Price, Cost and Competition" issue of JAMA . One of the more int...

The Most Interesting Man In the World Teaches the PHB about the Medical Home

The Population Health Blog isn't sure why its Twitter account was targeted by the Dos Equis ads about the exploits of " the world...

The Cost-Saving Elevator-Pitch for the Patient Centered Medical Home

Ready, set, elevator, go! Over the last year, several colleagues have asked the Population Health Blog to compactly summarize the economic r...

The Patient Centered Medical Home PCMH Gets On Base with Increased Quality in the Real World

Getting to first base Advocates for the Patient Centered Medical Home will probably like what they see in the lead research article in the J...

More JAMA Drama: The Medical Home Reduces Costs, But Only For High Risk Patients

A medical home candidate? Just when the Population Health Blog decided to take a break from all the JAMA drama , along comes this study ...

Ten Things to Know About the mHealth App Ecosystem.

A mHealth app walled garden: enter at your own risk? If, like the Population Health Blog, you're interested in the hand-held mHealth app...

A Generic Keyword "Pitch" to Better Sell the Medical Home

Applause! While the just concluded 2014 Medical Home Summit was a wonderful learning and networking confab, it did have it's moments o...

Noise to Signal Ratio in the Assessment of the Medical Home

From time to time, the Population Health Blog's consulting business generates supplemental income. When that happens, it gets dropped i...

Smart MedPAC Wonks Think Out Loud About the Medical Home

If you spend a lot of time building, administering, expanding, marketing, promoting or networking "medical homes," it might be a g...

More on the Failure of a Huge Medical Home Initiative to Reduce Health Care Costs

Getting the medical home back on the road In this JAMA editorial , Thomas Schwenk agrees with the Disease Management/ Population Health Blo...

Insights on Health Reform, Courtesy of Medical Home News

Getting more brainy To the chagrin of the DMCB spouse, the Disease Management Care Blog serves for free on several editorial boards. In its ...

The Office Manager: A Member of the Patient Centered Medical Home Team You Never Heard Of

Which one is the practice manager? Ask the average primary health care policy wonk about the make-up of the Patient Centered Medical Home te...

Community Care North Carolina Style Medical Home Saves Money

So, does the medical home "save money?" A recent publication in Population Health Management about Community Care of North Carol...

Inconvenient Facts Get In the Way: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Program Savings Claims Are Not Based on Statistical Significance

Welcome to your medical home! The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative announced: " Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan saved an...

Just Because You Build It They Won't Come: What ACOs, PCMHs and Population Health Advocates Need to Know About Poverty and Emergency Room Use

Thinking about an ER visit..... As part of a research requirement that it had to fulfill prior to medical school graduation, the young Disea...

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