On Friday, July 25, 2014, NCQA and the John A. Hartford Foundation hosted a breakfast briefing in Washington, DC, entitled,Transforming Primary Care: What Medicare Beneficiaries Want and Need from Patient-Centered Medical Homes to Improve Health and Lower Costs. Primary care often struggles to serve the most complex and expensive Medicare beneficiaries. The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) holds promise for providing more comprehensive, continuous, and coordinated care for these vulnerable patients. This briefing built upon results of three public polls of Americans age 65 and over on the nature of their primary care and what they see as opportunities for improvement (more information on the Hartford Foundation’s most recent poll on team care and medical home services can be found here). Presenters discussed how the current PCMH recognition system, proposed payment mechanisms, and potential legislative and regulatory action can drive better care, improve health outcomes, and reduce public spending.
Briefing Resources
- July 25 PCMH Briefing Agenda
- Christopher Langston, PhD, Program Director, John A. Hartford Foundation, Presentation: “Transforming Primary Care: What Medicare Beneficiaries Want and Need from Patient-Centered Medical Homes to Improve Health and Lower Costs”
- Margaret O’Kane, MHS, President, NCQA, Presentation: “Patient-Centered Medical Homes for Medicare Beneficiaries”
- Robert Berenson, MD, Institute Fellow, The Urban Institute, Presentation: “Transforming Primary Care: The Role of Payment Policy”
- Caroline Blaum, MD, MS, Diane and Arthur Belfer Professor of Geriatrics, Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care, New York University Langone Medical Center, Presentation: “The Role of PCMH in Transforming Primary Care for High-Need Patients”
- Hartford Foundation PCMH Issue Brief
- NCQA White Paper: “The Future of Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Foundation for a Better Health Care System”
For more information on the Hartford Foundation’s public opinion polls, please visit our Learning Center posts listed below: