In my best guess (if I were to look into the future), the PCMH (patient centered medical home) will be a new quality standard set by associations such as NCQA for physician practices...somewhat analogous to how JCAHO set the quality standards for hospitals. Meeting these pre-defined threshold standards will determine the physician pay mix based on performance.
"Patient Centered Medical Home" is ultimately grounded in the concept of "having the patient at the center of health care delivery and empowering the patient to play a more active role in health care delivery"....this implies a number of things, such as: (1) giving the patient a greater control in managing their health, (2) giving the patient flexibility in how they manage their health, (3) making education a critical component to optimal health care, and (4) keeping patients in the communication mix that historically occurred only between the providers and payers.
Gautam Gulati, MD,MBA,MPH
Vice President/Group Director, Science & Medicine, Digitas Health
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