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by Jaan Sidorov, MD and Vince Kuraitis The Medicare MAPCP (Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Practice) demo promised to be Medicare’s Biggest Change in 40 Years… …but the emerging reality isn’t living up to the promise. In this post, we’ll discuss: The Promise An Overview of the MAPCP Demo Our Main Takeaway: Emerging Reality Suggests Medicare [...]
by Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA . ….or to be more specific, HITECH is synergistic with payment reform that could come from the recently passed national health care reform legislation — the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). We’ll keep this post fairly short and try to avoid many of the more [...]
This article appears in the April 2010 issue of Medical Home News. First, the good news: There are a lot of pilot and demonstration projects potentially involving the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) in newly enacted Federal health care reform legislation – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Then, the bad news: There [...]
Here’s a bit of trivia that will make you the hit of the next cocktail party you attend. How many times are the words “demonstration” and “pilot” mentioned in the newly passed Federal healthcare reform legislation — the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)? Answer: “demonstration” — 312 mentions “pilot” — 80 mentions This weekend [...]
Last week I asked whether Medicare’s Biggest Change in 40 Years is on the horizon. That post described and discussed implications of Medicare’s new direction for the medical home — the shelving of Medicare Medical Home Demonstration (MMHD) and the refocusing on the recently announced Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Initiative (MAPCI). In that post I touched briefly on [...]
Do you remember the scene in the movie Animal House where Bluto Blutarski laments “…seven years of college education down the drain?” Why aren’t primary care physicians expressing similar laments about the shelving of the MMHD (Medicare Medical Home Demonstration) in favor of the MAPCI (Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Initiative). My colleague Jaan Sidorov, MD and [...]
Earlier this week CMS issued a typically cryptic Announcement indicating that they were shelving the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration (MMHD) and instead would focus on the recently announced Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Initiative (MAPCI). My blog post from Tuesday provides details and asks the question “What does all this mean?” Today’s blog post will tackle: Medicare’s [...]
I just received an email from CMS announcing the latest official word on the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration (MMHD): 10/26/2009 – In Washington, the efforts to reform health care and health insurance include proposed legislative language that would have an impact on the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration as described in section 204 of the Tax Relief [...]
An article in today’s Washington Post links to a letter written by Senator Charles E. Grassley. The letter is directed at 10 EMR (electronic medical record) vendors, and asks very pointed questions about whether the vendors have been negligent in not addressing patient safety issues in their technologies. Senator Grassley, you have the scent and [...]
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