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Public Payer Medical Home Initiatives
The patient centered medical home is an approach that provides comprehensive primary care for children, youth, and adults and may have benefits for population health, equity in health, and cost containment. This model of care is garnering support from public and private payers and purchasers, as well as physicians, academics, policy makers, and consumers. This State Health Policy Briefing examines the Southeast Pennsylvania Chronic Care Initiative, Medicare Medical Home Demonstrations, and approaches to evaluations of medical home demonstrations to provide an overview of policies for states to consider to help practices become high functioning medical homes. It is based on a webcast convened by NASHP in November 2008. This briefing was produced by Rohan Beesla and Relja Ugrinic of the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative with the support of The Commonwealth Fund. Public Payer Medical Home Initiatives, State Health Policy Briefing, April 2009.