Call Agenda, Thursday, December 17th 11:00 AM EDT

 
 
 
 
This is a reminder to those who are available that on Thursday December 17th at 11:00am EST we will hold a call for the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative. Welcome to those who are on the list for the first time this week. Please forward this on to anyone we may have omitted.
 
Thursday, December 17th 11:00 am Eastern Standard Time
 
Conference Call-In Phone Number
Call in number is 712.432.3900
Passcode is 471334
Moderator code is 406354.
Please press *6 on your phone to mute and *7 to unmute.
(Moderators/Speakers use #0 to mute all participant lines and #1 to unmute.)
 
Please mute your telephone unless you are speaking. We have had some issues with background noise causing interference with the sound quality of our calls recently due to the growing numbers of participants on these conference calls.
 
If you have not registered to recieve this newsletter, follow this link and there is an easy registration process on our website.  Additionally, the previous national Thursday call agendas are listed on this page.
 
Please note that all of the attachments are linked at the bottom of the agenda.
 
I. Collaborative Announcements
 

A.  How to get Involved with the PCMH National Movement and the PCPCC
The Executive Director of the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), Edwina Rogers, recently held a breifing over the phone for any organization or individual who wishes to learn more about the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and our Collaborative.  The next briefing will be held on Friday, December 18, 2009 - 12:00 PM EDT.  If you wish to participate, please dial into our call-in number: 712.432.3900 and enter passcode 471334#.  To download our PCPCC presentation materials please click here and download the document entitled "General PCPCC PowerPoint".

B. New NASHP Publication: State Strategies for Care Coordination, Case Management, and Linkages for Young Children: A Scan of State Medicaid. Title V, and Part C Agencies

NASHP conducted this scan of states in order to better identify and understand what states are doing through variously funded early child health and development agencies to promote better care coordination, case management, and linkages to services for young children. This paper describes state models that may help policy makers become more aware of the potential resources and tools available to promote healthy development for young children and can provide states with strategies to more effectively coordinate resources and achieve better outcomes for their children. To download this report, please click here.

C.  New Learning Collaborate to Prepare Clinicians for Better Chronic Care

HealthSciences Institute will sponsor a new learning collaborative for health care professionals, teams and organizations who serve individuals at risk of, or affected by, chronic diseases in employer, health plan, medical home and other provider settings.
The collaborative will offer free, noncommercial webinars on topics, solutions and case studies in chronic disease prevention, management and care improvement. Each webinar will include a brief presentation, ask-the-expert segment, and targeted discussion on the application of new learning to participant job roles. Discussion will continue online between sessions.
The collaborative is a component of a new HealthSciences Institute-sponsored Partners in Improvement initiative that will offer free online chronic care improvement resources and tools to health care organizations and professionals.
“Nurses and other professionals who serve at-risk individuals—in settings from health plans to medical homes—want affordable, noncommercial learning activities that prepare them for the real-world challenges of chronic care. They also understand that some of the most valuable lessons are learned through collaboration and problem-solving with peers,” cites Blake Andersen, PhD, President and CEO of HealthSciences Institute.
Learning Collaborative Event Schedule

  • 1/8/2010 Benchmarking Population Health Programming and Disease Management Expertise with Tina Ross-Knapp, BS, RN, CCP, Manager, Population Health Management, Capital Blue Cross.
  • 2/5/2010 Applying Patient Activation with Judith Hibbard, Ph.D., Professor, Oregon Health & Science University.
  • 3/5/2010 A Collaborative Primary Care CVD & Diabetes Program at Kaiser Permanente with Teri Laurenti, PharmD, CCP and Gail Richardson, NP, CCM, CCP.
  • 6/4/2010 Community-Based Strategies for Primary Prevention of Diabetes with David Marrero, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Indiana School of Medicine.
  • 8/6/2010 Minimally Disruptive Medicine with Victor Montori, MD, Endrincrinologist and Professor of Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic.
    All events held 10:30 to 11:30(CT); CCP Community Calls 11:30 to Noon (CT).

To learn more, please click here.

D. Medical Home Audioconference: The Role of the Hospital in the Medical Home Movement, January 13th, 1PM EST

Medical Home Audioconferences will present an audioconference on the The Role of the Hospital in the Medical Home Movement on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm (Eastern).

There seems to be clear evidence that a Patient-Centered Medical Home will reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and emergency room visits. Hospitals can reap financial benefits from these outcomes in cases where the patients are uninsured and would wind up as charity care, as well as in cases where the care team at the medical home helps an indigent or disabled patient qualify for government insurance. But there are other areas beyond just finance where hospitals can see a symbiotic relationship with the medical home movement - offering IT support as a way of attracting or rewarding hospital-affiliated physicians, strengthening the hospital's managed care network by partnering with high-quality physician practices, and "branding" the hospital as a caring, community-minded, patient-centric organization as well. This audioconference will explore new rules and new ways in which hospitals are relating to the medical home movement.  For more information, please click here.
 

E.  New Resources from the Healthcare Intelligence Network

HIN has several new medical home resources available that may be of interest to our members, including:

An online interview with Diane Littlewood, R.N., and Joann Sciandra, R.N., both regional managers of case management for health services at Geisinger Health Plan, on effective case management in the medical home

In this interview Littlewood and Sciandra describe case managers as the backbone of the Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) Health NavigatorSM program, which is a medical home partnership between primary care providers. Through the program GHP that has reduced 30-day hospital readmissions by 15 to 20 percent. Littlewood and Sciandra cover benchmarks for case manager caseloads and contact frequency, tools to support the case management effort, the key to smooth placement of case managers in the medical home and tips for better management of patients discharged to nursing facilities.
AND

Two new programs in our Medical Home Open House Series:

Risk Adjustment in the Medical Home: Building an Effective Reimbursement Strategy which will be held on 12/16/09
Medication Therapy Management in the Patient-Centered Medical Home which will be held on 1/6/10
 

F. Kaiser Permanente Colorado "Medication Therapy Management in the Patient-Centered Medical Home." - January 6, 2010 webinar

Medication non-adherence is a bitter pill to swallow for the healthcare industry, accounting for more than $100 billion in costs and 40 percent of hospital admissions. From free and discounted prescription drug costs to in-office medication reconciliation, medical home programs are working hard to ensure patient medication compliance. 
 
Kaiser-Permanente Colorado will describe the responsibilities of the physician, pharmacist, patient, health IT, financial incentives and reimbursement in its medication therapy management program during "Medication Therapy Management in the Patient-Centered Medical Home," a 45-minute webinar on January 6, 2010 at 1:30 Eastern sponsored by the Healthcare Intelligence Network. 
Learn more about medication therapy management in the medical home by visiting here.  

G. NCQA Seminar - How to Facilitate Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition: A Hands-On Approach and Analysis Through NCQA's Eyes

January 25 - 26, 2010
Join us January 25th and 26th as expert faculty from NCQA guides participants in this interactive workshop. NCQA's President Margaret E. O'Kane will conduct the welcome and opening remarks for this very special program.

The faculty will examine how practices can demonstrate that they meet NCQA's PPC®-PCMH™ requirements and discuss sample submissions for PPC-PCMH Recognition. Participants will learn how to identify documentation that does (and does not) meet the requirements and we'll practice scoring each element. The group will identify strategies for enhancing and improving valid content and clarity of the application towards a Recognized Patient-Centered Medical Home and identify the aspects of the survey and evaluation process that may challenge or facilitate an efficient application and survey submission in a variety of practice environments.

This program is designed for any health care professional or consultant interested in getting the inside perspective directly from expert faculty from NCQA in evaluating a primary care practice and their ability to become Recognized as a Patient-Centered Medical Home by NCQA.

Date, Location, Hotel Information Jan. 25 - 26, 2010

The Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City, Arlington, VA

H.  eHealth Initiative's Annual Conference 2010, Delivering on the Promise of eHealth, January 25-26, 2010

Join the eHealth Initiative on January 25-26, 2010 to discuss and debate the rapidly changing world of health information technology. This unique conference will draw on the wisdom of some of the country’s top health and information technology experts in order to help attendees understand the following:
 

  • What’s the policy?
  • What’s possible?
  • What’s practical?

This conference will highlight specific examples of how eHealth is being implemented across the country, as well as raise challenging questions about the ability of the country to move towards universal, meaningful use of health information technology by 2014. Policymakers, industry leaders, clinicians and patients will participate in engaging panel discussions and adversarial debates revolving around eHealth issues that affect the entire American health care system.
 
The eHealth Initiative’s conference will be the first in 2010 to put meaningful use and other policy panaceas under a critical microscope and help attendees understand how contemporary, real-world examples of health information and health IT improving the quality, safety and efficiency of health care can point the way for a more connected future.   For more information, please click here.

I.  5th Annual Employer Health and Human Capital Congree - February 2-5, 2010

The business case for effective management of corporate health programs has never been clearer. The Mission of the 5th Annual Employer Health & Human Capital Congress is to help our executive delegation of large employers:

  • Control healthcare cost trend
  • Improve employee health, wellness and productivity
  • Implement creative benefits redesign strategies

The annual EHHC Congress agenda encourages our executive delegation to make strategic and specific actions to improve the management of employee benefits, health & wellness programs and the delivery of effective economic incentives for better employee health. The Congress annually attracts over 500 delegates across the country from the nation's fortune 1000 employers. Every year attendees network and discuss challenges with an exclusive audience of the most senior HR and benefits executives from the nation's leading companies.  The PCPCC President, Dr. Paul Grundy, and Executive Director, Edwina Rogers, will be keynoting the 'Patient-Centered Innovations' segment of the meeting.  To learn more, please click here.

J. 2010 National Health Policy Conference, Washington, D.C. Feburary 8-9th

The National Health Policy Conference (NHPC), hosted by AcademyHealth and Health Affairs, provides clarity on the critical health care issues and priorities for the upcoming year. Now in its tenth year, the NHPC continues to deliver a program with insider perspectives from health policy leaders to an audience of more than 800 that includes researchers, policy experts, and advocates, who all share your concerns and interests.  Topics include: Reforming Provider Payment to Promote Models of Integrated Delivery, State Roles in Health Care Reform: From Medicaid to Exchanges, From HIT to Actionable Knowledge:  Building the Research Bridge and Special Session on Forming Accountable Care Organizations: Lessons Learned from the Group Employer Model.  For more information, please click here.

K. Second National Medical Home Summit - March 1-2, 2010

A Hybrid Conference and Internet Event
The Leading Forum on the Development and Implementation of the Patient Centered Medical Home 

Sponsored by Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative and Jefferson School of Population Health Cosponsored by American Academy of Family Practice, American Academy of Pediatrics, Convenient Care Association and Disease Management Association of America
Media Partners: Harvard Health Policy Review, Health Affairs, Medical Home News and Population Health Journal
Some of the Issues that will be Addressed are:
  • Actual experience implementing the medical home EHR
  • Documented improvements in process and outcome measures
  • The role of the medical home in reducing racial disparities
  • Challenges and successes in building the clinical team
  • Managing workflow disruptions in the transformation period
  • Emerging roles for non-clinical workers on the medical home team
  • Medical homes for the Medicaid population
  • Experience with different medical homes payment models
  • Creating the necessary 21st century primary care workforce
  • Safety Net Clinics as medical homes for the under- and uninsured
  • Changing medical school curricula and residency programs
March 1 - 2, 2010 Philadelphia, PA.  For more information, please click here. PLEASE NOTE: Register for National Medical Home Summit by Friday 12/18 for Early/Early Bird Rate!
 
L. Another Resource from the Healthcare Intelligence Network - Model Medical Homes: Benchmarks and Case Studies in Patient-Centered Care
 
Healthcare is poised for a major transformation under the  Obama administration, and the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is increasingly positioned as a panacea for primary care. Although awareness and adoption of the PCMH has increased greatly in recent years, many healthcare organizations are only beginning to familiarize themselves with the principles and benefits of patient-centered care.
 
Model Medical Homes: Benchmarks and Case Studies in Patient-Centered Care is a landmark publication that documents the healthcare industry's adoption of the patient-centered medical home model of care. This exclusive 65-page report analyzes the responses of more than 220 healthcare organizations to HIN's 2009 Industry Survey on the Patient-Centered Medical Home Model.
 
Order your copy today by contacting HIN at 888-446-3530 or by visiting here.
  
M. PCPCC Officer and Speaker List
 
Please click here to find a list of the Collaborative's Officers and those who have agreed to speak on behalf of the PCPCC.  If you wish to have your name and organazation added to the Speaker List, please click here and complete the sign-up form.  If you have any questions, please email Relja Ugrinic, at rugrinic@pcpcc.net.
 

II. Important Links

October 22 Annual Summit Materials - click here

July 16 Meeting Materials - click here
 
April 28th Stakeholders' Working Meeting - click here
 
'Meaningful Connections' IT Resource Guide - click here
 
PCPCC - Emmi Solutions, 'Introduction to Patient Centered Medical Home' video - click here
 
PCPCC - Merck & Co. Patient Education Brochure and Checklist - click here
 
PCPCC Purchasers' Guide - click here
 
The Pilot Project Guide is now online and available for download.  Please click here to sign-up and download the document. 
 
PCPCC Brochure - click here
 
October 17 Healthy Momentum: The Patient-Centered Medical Home Summit
July 24/25 Medicaid Summit Materials:
 
III. 2010 Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative Meeting Dates
 
All three meetings will be held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington D.C. 20004 
  • PCPCC Stakeholders' Working Group Meeting - Tuesday, March 30, 2010
  • PCPCC Stakeholders' Working Group Meeting - Thursday, July 22, 2010
  • PCPCC Annual Summit - Thursday, October 21, 2010 
     
IV. Collaborative Outreach
 
The Collaborative would like to welcome the following groups as the newest signing members of the PCPCC: 
  • Bayer Corporation
  • CareLinc Options, LLC
  • Complete Family Medicine
  • Healthcare Partnering Limited
  • Procter & Gamble
     
We now have 691 signing members.
 
V. PCMH in the Press
 
"Most Primary-Care Physician Practices Appear Too Small To Adequately Measure Quality", redOrbit, 'Most primary care physicians active in the Medicare program work in practices with too few patients to reliably measure significant differences in common measures of quality and cost performance, according to a study in the December 9 issue of JAMA.' To read the full article, please click here.
 
"Payment Reform — The Need to Harmonize Approaches in Medicare and the Private Sector", Peter V. Lee, J.D., Robert A. Berenson, M.D., and John Tooker, M.D., M.B.A, New England Journal of Medicine, 'In the midst of heated debate over health care reform, there is an emerging consensus that the way we pay for health care — with our widespread reliance on fee-for-service payment models — is a core problem that must be fixed. Unfortunately, too many of the policies proposed as part of reform seem to reflect the magical thinking that if we only “change Medicare” then all will be right in the world. Medicare is indeed the largest purchaser of health care in the United States, but at $414 billion out of almost $2.4 trillion, it represents only 19% of total health care spending (see graph).1 Medicare must help lead the effort to change payment, but if we’re going to create a higher-value system overall, we need to change how all public and private payers reimburse for services.' To read the full article, please click here.
 
"Affinity's Medical Home helps to improve care, reduce cost", Northwestern, 'The Affinity Medical Home is a team approach uniting doctors, nurses and specialized staff including counselors in a new way as a patient's personal allies for primary care. These highly skilled professionals get to know each patient, understanding every aspect of his or her health. They work together to treat the whole person – body, mind and soul. Patients are treated in one location for all their primary needs.' To read the full article, please click here.
 
Collaborative Centers
 
In order to make best use of our membership base and resources the Collaborative has restructured, our various task forces and projects into more formal Centers. This transition has shifted the scope of work for the Collaborative and expanded the mandates for the various subgroups. Below, please find a brief list of the functions for the Centers, for a more detailed descriptions and goals of each Center please follow the linked Center names.
 
For more information please contact Relja Ugrinic at rugrinic@pcpcc.net or call 703.724.3332.
  • Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstration: Identify community-based sites to test and evaluate the concept; share information and best practices about pilots within a collaborative community; and serve as the connector to technical, quality improvement and education resources to facilitate ongoing demonstrations.
  • Center to Promote Public Payer Implementation: Assist public payers as they implement and refine programs to embed the Patient Centered Medical Home model by offering technical assistance; sharing best practices and giving guidance on the development of successful funding models.
  • Center for Employer Engagement: Create standards and buying criteria to serve as a guide and tool for large and small employers/purchasers in order to build the market demand for adoption of the Medical Home model.
  • Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange: Evaluate use and application of information technology to support and enable the development and broad adoption of information technology in private practice and among community practitioners.
A. Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstration
 
So far on these calls, we have received updated information from medical home projects in various stages of development across the country. Some groups have been working on practice transformation, and assisting physicians to provide services called for in the joint principles. Others have involved payers and are working to develop a system of reimbursement that uses quality measurement tools to combine a performance component to physician reimbursement.
 
On Tuesday, December 15th, CMD had a call, featuring:
 
I. Introduction
 
II. Presentation -Dr. Renee Kanan, Regional Medical Director, California State Prison System
 
Dr. Renee Kanan received a medical degree from Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri and master degree in public health from University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.
 
Dr. Kanan is a board certified internist who has served in physician leadership roles including medical director and chief medical officer positions within correctional settings for more than twelve years.  In addition, she has served as a correctional health care system advisor to various organizations including the RAND Corporation.
 
She currently is working in the California prison system as a regional medical director and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care as the American College of Physician liaison.
 
Dr. Kanan came onto the call to discuss implementing the PCMH in the California Prison Health Care System. 
 
The agenda and presentation materials from the last CMD call can be found here.
 
To register to recieve CMD emails, please click here, and look under the newsletter subscription section.
For more information please contact Relja Ugrinic at rugrinic@pcpcc.net or call 202.724.3332.
 
The Center will have its next call on January 19th at 2PM EST.

B. Center to Promote Public Payer Implementation
 
With the expansion of the former State Medicaid Working Group this Center is currently in the process of reassessing our short and long-term goals. We plan to retain our current focus on state Medicaid programs, however we also plan on approaching implementation of the PCMH model in public payer programs from the perspective of the state as an employer, and federal health programs such as Medicare and the Veterans Administration.
 
On Tuesday, December 15th, the Center to Promote Public Payer Implementation had their monthly call. 
The call featured:

I. Introductions

Co-Chairs: Terry McInnis, GlaxoSmithKline; Allen Dobson, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, retired; Donna Lichti, Pfizer Health Solutions; Gary Jacobs, Universal American Corp.; Lesley Reeder, Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
PCPCC Executive Director: Edwina Rogers
 
II. Speaker Presenation Postponed - Roy Ramthun, President, HSA Consulting

III. NASHP Update
IV.  Medication Management update
V. Federal Health Reform update

 

To view the full agenda and presentation materials, please click here.

If you are interested in learning more about current medical home projects within the Medicaid systems please click this link for a resource produced by our partners at the National Academy for State Health Policy.
 
Additionally, if you visit the CPPI site, you can view information on CMS' Medicare Medical Home Demonstrations, or you can click here to view the information.
For more information please contact Relja Ugrinic at rugrinic@pcpcc.net or call 202.724.3332.
To register to recieve CPPI emails, please click here and look under the newsletter subscription section.
 
The next Center call  is scheduled for January 19th at 3PM EST. 

C. Center for Employer Engagement
 
On the December 9th phone call, the Center conducted a meeting and tackled a number of important issues, including:

I.  Introductions

Co-Chairs: Duane Putnam, Pfizer, Inc.; Bruce Sherman, MD, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company; Robert Dribbon, Merck & Co., Inc.

II. Update on PCMH/VBID white paper

III. Update on CBRI Name Change to Center for Employer Engagement (CEE)

IV.  Scheduling of Guest Speakers for 2010   -- (Please find spreadsheet of confirmed speakers attached)

To view the agenda for the CEE call, please click here. 

To register to recieve CEE emails, please click here and look under the newsletter subscription section.
 
The Center will have its next call on January 13th at 3PM EST.
 
D. Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange

The Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange will serve a number of related functions. The first will be to act as a clearinghouse for information concerning the national development of various Health Technology system platforms and electronic delivery platforms for medical records. The second task is to coordinate national education concerning the importance of HIT/EMR developments to both providers and consumers of health care. The final task of the Center will be to elucidate the integral role of HIT/EMR development within the specific context of the Patient Centered Medical Home model and expand upon the provision with the Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home as agreed to by the ACP, AAFP, AOA, and AAP.
 
The Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange met on Thursday, December 10th, at 1:00PM EST. 
 
The call featured, among other items: 
  1. Welcome and introductions - Dr. David Nace
  2. Presentation - Jonathan Klein, MD, American Academy of Pediatrics.  Dr. Klein has been recently appointed a new full-time leader at AAP and has been tasked with development of their HIT strategy in support of their mission and membership.  Hear Dr. Klein describe the history of what has been done at AAP to date as well as his thoughts on how AAP can best support their members, as well as children and families, with regard to using HIT in a PCMH model to facilitate practice transformation and improvement in health outcomes. 
  3. Open discussion

To view the full agenda for this call, please click here.

To register to recieve CeHIA emails, please click here and and look under the newsletter subscription section.
 
The Center will be having its next call on January 14th at 1:00 PM EST.
 
E.  Center for Consumer Engagment
 
The PCPCC has formed a fifth Center, the Center for Consumer Engagement.  If you are interested in representing your organization in this new Center, please email Relja Ugrinic, at rugrinic@pcpcc.net, and you will be added to the listserv.
 
On the Center's previous call, on December 4th, the following occured.

I.  Update and Discussion on the Changes to the PCPCC Website

  • What is being implemented on the PCPCC website in accordance with the conceptual development of the pediatric content that includes collecting content, materials and input from key user audiences to guide development and dissemination. 
  • What other resources can be brought forth to enhance the 'Consumers & Patient' section of the website.

II.  Open Discussion

The agenda can be found here.
 
The Center's next call is scheduled for December 18th, at 10:00 AM EST.
 
VII. Meetings
 
Recently Completed Meetings  
 
  • Wednesday, September 2nd at 11:00 AM EDT, with Melissa Bartlett, Congressional Staffer on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
  • Monday, August 31st, w/ Emily Porter, Representative John Boehner's aide, 1:30 PM EDT, Office: H-204 of the Capitol
  • Monday, August 24th, 1:00 PM EDT, Bob Kocher, The White House
  • Tuesday, August 18th, 11:00 AM EDT, Josh Martin, Office of Senator Burr 
  • Tuesday, August 18th, 10:00 AM EDT, Deborah Trautman, Office of Senator Nancy Pelosi
  • Thursday, July 23rd, 3:30 PM EDT, Josh Trent, Office of Senator Tom Coburn, 172 Russell Senate Office Building
  • Friday, July 17th, 10:00 AM EDT, Manny Jimenez, Office of Senator Jeanne Shaheen, 520 Hart Office Building
  • Wednesday, July 1st, 4:30 PM EDT, Chris Dawe, Staff at Senate Finance Committee, 219 Dirksen Office Building
  • Wednesday, July 1st, 3:00 PM EDT, Brian Sutter, Office of Congressman Dave Camp, Committee on Ways and Means, 341 Cannon House Office Building
  • Friday, June 26th, 10:00 AM EDT, Lindsay Shore, Office of Congressman Eric Cantor, Committee on Ways and Means, 329 Cannon House Office Building
  • Friday, June 19th, 4:00 PM EDT, Jon Sheiner, Office of Congressman Charles Rangel, Committee on Ways and Means, 2354 Rayburn House Office Building
  • Tuesday, June 16th, 10:30 AM EDT, Veronica Wong, Legislative Assistant, Congressman Darrell Issa, Ranking Member, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 2347 Rayburn Building
  • Thursday, June 4th, 9:00 AM EDT, Kelly Hall, Senior Advisor for Health Care Policy, Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz, 330 Cannon House Office Building
VIII. General PCPCC Call Schedule

Below please find the dates for the various weekly Collaborative phone calls.
Please note that all Collaborative calls except the Executive Committee are held on the same conference call line.
The call-in number is: 712-432-3900.  The passcode is 471334.  The moderator code is 406354.
  • PCPCC Call – Thursday, 11 AM EST - This weekly call will continue to serve as the general Collaborative update. We will continue to use this call to provide PCPCC members with information drawn from all Collaborative efforts, and the efforts of our members. We will also be providing information on all upcoming PCPCC events on this call.     2010 - 1 /14, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/4, 3/11, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17, 6/24, 7/8, 7/15, 7/29, (no August calls) 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/7, 10/14, 10/28, 11/4, 11/18, 12/2, 12/9, 12/16
  • Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstration - Bi-weekly – Tuesday, 2 PM EST   2010 - 1/19, 2/2, 3/2, 4/6, 5/4, 6/1, 7/6 (no August calls) 9/7, 10/5, 11/2, 12/7
  • Center for Public Payer Implementation  – 3rd Tuesday of the month, 3 PM EST,  2010 - 1/19, 2/16, 3/16, 4/20, 5/18,6/15, 7/20, (no August calls) 9/21, 10/19, 11/16, 12/21   
  • Center for Health Benefits Redesign and Implementation – Bi-weekly - Wednesday, 3 PM EST -   2010 - 1/13, 1/27, 2/10, 2/24, 3/10, 4/14, 4/28, 5/12, 6/9, 6/23, 7/14, 7/28, (no August calls) 9/15, 9/29, 10/13, 10/27, 11/10, 12/15  
  • Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange – Monthly - Thursday, 1 PM EST - 2nd and 4th Thursday of the Month -   2010 - 1/14, 1/28, 2/11, 2/25, 3/11, 4/15, 4/29, 5/13, 6/10, 6/24, 7/15, 7/29, (no August calls) 9/16, 9/30, 10/14, 10/28, 12/16  

Four Center Task Groups:

  • Executive Committee Call – Monthly – 4:00-5:30 pm EST,   11/17, (no December call)
IX.  Executive Committee

There are 47 members of the Executive Committee: Aetna; Alere; American Academy of Family Physicians; American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, American Academy of Pediatrics; American College of Physicians; American Osteopathic Association; BlueCross BlueShield; Boehringer Ingelheim; CIGNA; The Commonwealth Fund; CVS Caremark; DMAA: Care Continuum Alliance; EHE International; Geisinger Health System; GlaxoSmithKline; Health Care Services Corporation;  Humana, Inc.; IBM; Johnson & Johnson; Kaiser Permanente; McKesson Corporation; MedAssurant; Medco; Medfusion; Merck; Microsoft; MVP Health Care; NextGen Healthcare Information Systems; Novartis; Nurse Practitioners Roundtable; Pfizer; Phytel; Priority Health; The Quantum Group; Robert Bosch Healthcare; Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Sanofi-Aventis; Taconic IPA, Inc.; Thomas Group; Thomson Reuters; TransforMED; UnitedHealthcare; Universal American Corp.; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health Plan; Walgreens; WellCentive, LLC and Wellpoint.
                      
X. Officers
 
Chairman
John Crosby, American Osteopathic Association
 
President
Paul Grundy, MD, IBM
 
Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstration
Co-Chairs: Sally Bleeks, BCBSA; Julie Schilz, Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative; Shari Erickson, American College of Physicians; John Swanson, American Academy of Family Physicians
 
Center to Promote Public Payer Implementation
Co-Chairs: Terry McInnis, GlaxoSmithKline; Allen Dobson, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, retired; Donna Lichti, Pfizer Health Solutions, Gary Jacobs, Universal American Corp, Lesley Reeder, Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
 
Center for Health Benefit Redesign and Adoption
Co-Chairs: Duane Putnam, Pfizer, Inc., Bruce Sherman, MD, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Robert Dribbon, Merck & Co., Inc.
Co-Vice Chairs – Helen Darling, National Business Group on Health, and Andrew Webber, National Business Coalition on Health 
 
Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange

Co-Chairs: Dr. David Nace, McKesson Health Solutions (David.Nace@mckesson.com), Janet Marchibroda, IBM (jmarchibroda@us.ibm.com), Dr. James Crawford, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System (JCrawford1@NSHS.edu), and Jeff Hanson, Thomson Reuters (jeffrey.hanson@thomsonreuters.com)
Executive Director - Chris Nohrden (cnohrden@hughes.net)

Four New Center Task Groups:

 
Collaborative Directors
Executive Director – Edwina Rogers erogers@pcpcc.net, 202.724.3331
Director of Operations and External Affairs - Relja Ugrinic rugrinic@pcpcc.net 202.724.3332
 
XI. Advisory Board

There are 20 member organizations of the advisory board and they are: AARP, American Academy of Communication in Healthcare, American Board of Internal Medicine, American Department of Family Medicine, American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, Association of Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse, Brian Klepper, Bridges to Excellence, The Center for Excellence In Primary Care, The Center for the Advancement of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, eHealth Initiative, HR Policy Association, the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation Massachusetts General Hospital, the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, Medication Management Systems, National Association of County and City Health Officials, National Business Coalition on Health, National Business Group on Health, the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare. We are considering additional advisory board representatives from state based groups and labor organizations. 
 

Edwina Rogers
Executive Director
Relja Ugrinic
Director of Operations and External Affairs

Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative
The Homer Building
601 Thirteenth Street, NW, Suite 400 North
Washington, DC 20005
Edwina Direct:  (202) 724-3331
Edwina Cell: (202) 674-7800
Relja Direct:  (202) 724-3332
Relja Cell: (703) 585-9165
Fax: (202) 393-6148

erogers@pcpcc.net

rugrinic@pcpcc.net