2. Agenda
Reality check: US healthcare
Why Patient Centered Medical Homes?
What we are now
Implications for you
3. How does our current system stack up?
Reality Check
4. Middle to Bottom of the Pack
Of 13 countries in recent study
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13th for low-birth weight %
13th for neonatal & infant mortality
11th for postnatal mortality
13th for years of potential life lost
11th for life expectancy @ 1 yrs (females), 12th
(males)
10th for life expectancy @ 15 yrs (females ),12th
(males)
10th for life expectancy @ 40 yrs (females), 9th
(males)
7th for life expectancy @ 65 yrs (females), 7th
(males)
3rd for life expectancy @ 80 yrs (females), 3rd
(males)
10th for age adjusted mortality
Barbara Starflield, MD, MPH. JAMA July 26, 200
9. In Support of Medical Homes
Policies
Community
Practice
Encounter
Alignment of Incentives International findings
10. Fundamental Concept: Teams
Physicians
ANPs and Nurses
PA’s
Pharmacists
Nutritionists
Social Workers
Educators
Care Coordinators
Comprehensive Requires
Teams
Team Members
Virtual Teams
11. What is the PCMH?
Clinic that puts patient’s at the center of the
health care system
Provides primary care
Accessible
Continuous
Comprehensive
Family Centered
Coordinated
Compassionate
Culturally effective
American Academy of Pediatrics
13. Joint Principles
Provide a personal physician for each patient
Physician directed medical practice
Oriented around the whole person
Coordinated and integrated Care
Adhere to quality and safety hallmarks
Provide enhanced access
Dedicated to payment reform
AAFP, ACP, AAP, AOA
14. NCQA and PCMH
Defined standards with 3-tiered recognition
Physician Practice Connections – PCMH
program
PPC – PCMH recognition
Application completion
Submit documentation proving processes and
policies are in place
Levels
Basic – Level 1
Intermediate – Level 2
Advanced – Level 3
15. 9 PPC-PCMH Standards (7 must
pass)
Standards Must Pass Elements
1) Access and Communication Written patient access and communication
standards
Use data showing standards are met
2) Patient tracking and Registry Clinical information organized in paper or
electronic tools
Data used to identify diagnoses and conditions
3) Care management Adopt and implement evidence based guidelines
in 3 conditions
4) Patient self-management support Support patient self-management
5) Electronic prescribing
6) Test tracking Track tests & identify abnormals systematically
7) Referral tracking Paper or electronic referral tracking system
8) Performance reporting &
improvement
Measure clinical and/or service performance by
physician
Report performance across practice by physician
9) Advanced electronic
communications
19. Most PCMH sites are level 3
Sites Recognized as of 4-30-2013
5,660 PCMH sites (27, 328
physicians)
Most in NY, NC, PA
*Over 230,000 physician practices in US
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23. Recognition not always
meaningful
Assure adequate financial resources
Tailor approach to each practice
Assist physicians with personal transformation
NCQA needs to modify its PCMH-Recognition
Process
31. Change is hard work … you’ll probably be
doing something different than for which
you’re now being trained
Implications For You
32. Doing it right requires changes
Requires transformation
Means personal transformation of physicians
Developmental
Local
Required technology is not Plug and Play
Change Fatigue is a big problem
Annals of Family Medicin
33. At the heart of all programs
Inexorable shift from individual to population
care
Reduction of the cost burden of health care
Transparent and open access to information
34. Payers should largely eliminate stand-alone fee-for-service
payments
Transition to a quality and value based system and adopted
with broad adoption by the end of the decade
Continue recalibrating fee-for-service payments to
encourage…cost effectiveness and penalize behavior that
misuses or overuses care
Annual updates should be increased for E&M and freeze
procedural diagnosis codes for a period of three years
Eliminate higher payment for facility-based services that can be
performed in a lower-cost setting
Fee-for-service contracts should always incorporate quality
metrics
Fee-for-service reimbursement should encourage small
practices (< 5 providers) to form virtual relationships
Fixed payments should initially focus on areas where significant
potential exists for cost savings and higher quality
Measures to safeguard access to care, adequacy of risk-
adjustment indicators, and promote strong physician
commitment to patients should be put into place for fixed
payment models
Eliminate the Sustainable Growth Rate
Pay for SGR repeal from Medicare cost savings
Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) should make
decision-making more transparent and diversify its membership.
35. What You Might Experience
Patients come to you
Serial work flow
Treat individual
Work related
reimbursement
Patient a passive
recipient of care
9-5 M-F
You bring patients in
Parallel work flow
Treat a population
Quality based
reimbursement
Patient an active
participant
24x7x365
Current Future
36. Real Patient Centered Care
“Gimme my
damn data”
“My Mom is
my Medical
Home”
About me, after all I’m the patient
Let me “in” and be a user of the
system
Where I go for medical care
Need to take me 24x7x365
Easy access to all of my medical
information
Care for most problems without
referrals
Person answering phone, e-mails,
etc.
Treating me at home whenever
possible
Notas do Editor
No matter what measure US is an outlier
Not getting value for money spent
All of these programs have common elementsWHP – Wellness and Health Plan PromotionACO – Accountable Care OrganizationPCMH – Patient Centered Medical HomePPC – Physician Practice ConnectionsSPM – Society for Participatory Medicine
But applies to networksConclusionGroup Health’s experience in a prototype clinic suggests that primary care enhancements, in the form of the medical home, hold promise for controlling costs, improving quality, and better meeting the needs of patients and care teams. We offer an operational blueprint, but success in other settings will depend on leadership, resourcing, electronic health records, change management, and aligned incentives. Primary care transformation represents a complex system redesign that requires a policy environment that aligns payment and training to support this work. It also requires organizations in which leaders, managers, and care providers are highly engaged in achieving this change. ▪
Bilal JavedData Analyst, Physician Recognition ProgramsNational Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)1100 13th Street N.W. Suite 1000Washington, DC 20005Ph: (202) 955-3503Fax: (202) 955-3599Email: javed@ncqa.org
"Association between patient-centered medical home rating and operating cost at Federally-funded health centers," by Robert S. Nocon, M.H.S., Ravi Sharma, Ph.D., Jonathan M. Birnberg, M.D., M.S., and others in the July 4, 2012, Journal of the American Medical Association 308(1), pp. 60-66http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2012/20120624-pcmh.html
We have already learned enough from the NDP to identify some potentially dangerous red flags fluttering over the demonstrations just getting underway. Our early analysis raises concerns that current demonstration designs seriously underestimate the magnitude and time frame for the required changes, overestimate the readiness and expectations of information technology, and are seriously undercapitalized. We fear that with current assumptions, many demonstrations place participating practices at substantial risk and may jeopardize the evolution of the PCMH as unrealistic expectations set up demonstrations and evaluations for failure. The lessons described below arise from both the real-time or “live” qualitative analysis conducted during the NDP and the in-depth and comprehensive analysis currently underway. The live analysis included realtime reading of all data and multidisciplinary analysis team discussion in biweekly conference calls, quarterly reports to the NDP board,18 site visits by a member of the evaluation team, 3 analytic retreats, and member checking with NDP facilitators and practice participants to both expand understanding and seek disconfirming data. This special report, based on our ongoing analysis, raises timely concerns and opportunities. The pressure toward widespread adoption of this is model is gaining momentum so rapidly that we feel compelled to share our observations and summarize the early process-evaluation lessons. We describe 6 critical lessons, suggest 4 recommendations for health policy and 4 for practices, and raise hopeful warnings at this critical juncture for primary care reform.
Initial Lessons From the First National Demonstration Project on Practice Transformation to a Patient-Centered Medical HomePaul A. Nutting, MD, MSPH, William L. Miller, MD, MA, [...], and Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD Ann Fam Med. 2010 May; 8(Suppl 1): S57–S67.
Steven A. Schroeder, MD and William Frist, MD for the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform, “Phasing Out Fee-for-Service Payment.” New England Journal of Medicine 368;21:2029-2032http://physicianpaymentcommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/physician_payment_report.pdf