Call Agenda - Thursday, October 6th, 11:00 AM ET

Thursday, October 6th at 11:00am ET we will hold a call for the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.

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Collaborative Announcements

1. REGISTER! PCPCC Annual Summit - SPACE STILL AVAILABLE!

Five Years Making Healthy Connections: Collaborating to Improve Care in the PCMH 

• DATE:  Friday, October 21, 2011
• LOCATION:  Ronald Reagan Building
  International Trade Center
  1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC 20004 

Keynotes: Dr Richard Baron, Director of Seamless Care Models Group at the CMS Innovation Center and Dr Carolyn Clancy, Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Panel topics will include:

• Workforce training and education in the PCM
• Outcomes of the PCMH - A closer look at the data
• Purchasers and payers in the ACO landscape
• Integrating behavioral health into the PCMH
• Team-based care in the PCMH

Upcoming Webinars

The PCPCC Medication Management Taskforce is pleased to announce a free webinar from11:00am – 12:00pm EST on Wednesday, October 12th, entitled “Comprehensive Medication Management as a Critical Component in Coordinated Care Systems”. Our featured speakers will be Dr. Brian Isetts,  professor, pharmacist and Policy Fellow with the CMS Innovation Center.

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You are invited to hear Dr. Brian Isetts, professor, pharmacist and Policy Fellow with the CMSInnovation Center share what is happening at CMS in the area of Comprehensive Medication Management as a critical component in coordinated care systems, including a view of the inter-agency collaborations, key priorities and how we can continue to collaborate closely with CMS.  Following the talk there will be a Q and A period.

Dr. Brian Isetts is a Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy. Dr. Isetts' field of expertise is in the scholarship of caring, specifically studying the outcomes of medication therapy management services provided in integrated, team-based care settings. Research interests focus on the exchange of electronic health information to redesign the nation's medication use system. Also serving as Co-Investigator on a three-year National Library of Medicine HIT grant titled, "Semantic Relatedness for Active Medication Safety and Outcomes." Currently serving as a Health Policy Fellow at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations inWashington, D.C.
 
Dr. Isetts’s research interests include team-based health care, patient-centered health homes, accountable care organizations, drug-related morbidity and mortality, clinical decision support.
 
PCMH Happenings 

 
Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative Vice Chairman David Nace, MD will be featured in a session on The Medical Home: The Foundation of Accountable Care at the upcoming National ACO Congress, November 1-3, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. Sponsored by the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) and the California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG), this year’s Congress has a special emphasis on the burgeoning commercial ACOs that are springing up all over the country and, according to some experts, defining the future of the ACO movement.
 
Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative members and friends can register for the Congress at the deeply discounted price of $995. The regular Congress price is $1,695. In addition, PCPCC members and friends can choose to attend one of the Congress Pre-Conference sessions at no additional charge (regular cost is $495). To receive the discounted rate, enter PCPCC in the discount code box on the Congress registration form athttp://acocongress.com/registration.php. The $995 rate is good anytime up to the Congress date but we encourage you to register early. For more information and complete agenda go towww.acocongress.com.
 

FEATURED SESSION
The Medical Home: The Foundation of Accountable Care
	David Nace, MD Vice President & Medical Director, McKesson Corporation / Relay Health Vice Chairman, Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) Malvern, PA
	Kevin Grumbach, MD Professor and Chair, UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine Chief, Family and Community Medicine, SF General Hospital San Francisco, CA

This pre-conference session will be dedicated to participants who need to receive the latest information related to the Primary Care Medical Home Initiative. Taught directly by Joint Commission faculty with primary knowledge of this new option, you will learn about the additional standards, integration into the on-site survey process, and other related accreditation activities. Get your questions answered and learn the latest updates to the Primary Care Medical Home option.

Employers and insurance payers are interested in reducing health care costs, maintaining high value and high quality care for their employees to keep them healthy, productive and on the job.

"By working closely with http://www.YourCity.MD,Employers Health Coalition brings a powerful health care search engine to its members' finger tips. Now finding a Patient-Centered Medical Home is just a click away," says Craig Osterhues, Health Care Executive, GE Aviation & Employers Health Coalition Board Member.

Both employers and payers are hoping to encourage the employees to make great health care decisions by financially incenting them to change doctors. At the same time, they are financially incenting doctors to get credentialed and to practice using high quality and efficient measures which will help reduce the patients need to visit an emergency room or other such facility. Millions of employees will seek new doctors over the next year to take advantage of these financial programs and those doctors who get in front of this new wave of new patients will benefit.

Click HERE for the full article.
 

• Practices must use an NCQA-certified vendor to ensure a standardized method of data collection and reporting. A list of certified vendors will be available on the NCQA website in December, the Washington, D.C.-based organization stated.
• NCQA-recognized practices, or practices applying for recognition, are eligible for the distinction. All practices may submit data, but may not be eligible for the distinction.

Collaborative Centers

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A. Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstration
The primary objective of the Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstrations (CMD) is to serve as a clearing house for information on Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) pilot efforts around the country that include multiple private sector payers. The CMD will aim to recruit payers to devote covered lives to demonstration projects, while assisting them with demonstrations efforts through sharing of lessons learned and best practices from existing PCMH demonstrations. This will be accomplished by the CMD serving as an information exchange where Plans can discuss innovative reimbursement models to test in pilots as well as program design. The CMD will also be responsible for working with local convening entities to support regional pilots. 

• Care Coordination Taskforce -The Care Coordination Taskforce has reconvened their calls and will be discussing future activities and strategies for addressing care coordination in the PCMH. They have received input from PCPCC stakeholders toward the development of an outline for a PCPCC publication on care coordination.  The next Task Force call will be Thursday, October 27th at 10 a.m. 

B. Center for Public Payer Implementation
CPPI is tasked with a very broad mandate encompassing over 50% of all payors in the US Healthcare System. Growing out of the work that the Collaborative had undertaken within the Medicaid environment the CPPI is charged with promoting the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) concept in all facets of the public payer system.

• Task Force on Education and Training - Participants continue to  work with co-chairs Cynthia Belar and Libby Baxley to define the goals and activities of this new Task Force. They are focusing on the training and educational needs around PCMH of both the incoming and current workforce, and that of academic faculty across multiple disciplines.The next call will be held on October 19th at 4 p.m. ET 
• Task Force on Medication Management - The next call of the Medication Management Task Force will be held on Wednesday, October 12th at 11 a.m. ET.

D. Center for eHealth 
On Wednesday, September 22nd,  from 1:00-2:30pm ET, the Center for eHealth co-hosted a presentation with the Center for Public Payer Initiatives entitled: “Health Information Technology and the Indian Health Service ‘Improving Patient Care’ Program." This presentation is available for viewing on the PCPCC web site at:  www.pcpcc.net/media

E. Center for Consumer Engagement
The primary objective of the Center for Consumer Engagement (CCE) is to ensure the medical home model is truly patient-centered by: facilitating consumer involvement and leadership in the design and evaluation of the PCMH, strengthening the consumer voice in the PCPCC, and by developing a set of "Best Practices" for consumer engagement in PCMH. The CCE partners with large consumer groups to capitalize on their visibility and existing efforts. The most recent call for the CCE featured a presentation by Kait Roe, Consumer Advocate and PCMH advisor. The next call will be held on Friday, October 28th.

F.  Center for Accountable Care (CAC)
The CAC works to ensure that the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) serves as the foundation for all ACO’s, and that ACO’s thrive as a result of strong robust PCMH support. The center is tasked with strengthening the collaboration between the PCPCC and evolving ACO stakeholders, as well as espousing strategies and positions that strengthen the notion of a strong PCMH foundation for evolving ACO guidelines and practices. The next call of the CAC will be held on Monday,  October 24th at 2 p ET.