Transforming Primary Care: What Medicare Beneficiaries Want and Need from Patient-Centered Medical H
NCQA and the John A. Hartford Foundation will be hosting a breakfast briefing: Transforming Primary Care: What Medicare Beneficiaries Want and Need from Patient-Centered Medical Homes to Improve Health and Lower Costs on Friday July 25, 2014 in Washington, DC.
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NCQA and the John A. Hartford Foundation will be hosting a breakfast briefing: Transforming Primary Care: What Medicare Beneficiaries Want and Need from Patient-Centered Medical Homes to Improve Health and Lower Costs on Friday July 25, 2014 in Washington, DC.
Date: Friday July 25, 2014
Time: Program 9:00 - 10:30 a.m., Breakfast available at 8:30 a.m.
Location: Reserve Officers Association, Symposium Center, 4th floor, One Constitution Avenue, NE, Washington, DC, NE 20002
Transforming Primary Care:
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 will build upon results of three public polls of Americans over age 65 about the nature of their primary care and what they see as opportunities for improvement. Presenters will also discuss 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.
Presenters
Christopher Langston, PhD
Program Director, John A. Hartford Foundation
Margaret O’Kane, MHS
President, NCQA
Robert Berenson, MD
Institute Fellow, The Urban Institute
Caroline Blaum, MD, MS
Diane and Arthur Belfer Professor of Geriatrics, Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine
New York University Langone Medical Center
Background:
Enhancements in primary care, including models facilitated by changes in payments and accountability such as the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), hold promise in improving quality and lowering costs in health care. Because one can only avoid hospitalizations and other high-cost interventions in cases where there is some predictable risk of using those services, the population of older adults in Medicare -- and particularly those with multiple chronic conditions -- represent an important constituency for the PCMH. While the medical home was pioneered in younger populations and among the commercially insured, there are multiple CMS/CMMI demonstrations currently underway in the Medicare population focused on enhanced primary care.
This briefing will build upon results of three John A. Hartford Foundation public polls of Americans over age 65 on the nature of their primary care and what they see as opportunities for improvement, including a poll specifically focused on the services offered in medical homes. The National Committee for Quality Assurance, a leader in the PCMH movement, will discuss how the current PCMH recognition system, proposed payment mechanisms, and potential legislative and regulatory action can support the delivery of enhanced primary care to older Americans. Perspectives from both policy and clinical practice experts will point to what is needed in the future to improve the outcomes of medical homes and the health of older adults in the United States.
Please RSVP here.
For more information, contact Jessie White at jessie.white@jhartfound.org
