No Weekly Call - Thursday, October 7th, 11:00 AM EDT

 
 
 
This is a note that on Thursday October 7th at 11:00am EST we will not hold a call for the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative. We will continue with our calls next Thursday, October 14th.  In the meantime please find related and timely information on the PCMH and PCPCC below.
 
 
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.
 
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Please note that all of the attachments are linked at the bottom of the agenda.
 
I. Collaborative Announcements
 

A. Register Now! October 21st PCPCC Annual Summit - Exhibiting the Evidence: Advance of the Patient-Centered Medical Home

The PCMH is advancing as a transformative model of care, across the country--and increasingly around the world. The evidence is mounting affirming its value. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the strides that organizations are taking to and the evidence to support the advance of the patient-centered medical home. 
 
Summit topics are slated to include:
  • PCMH and Accountable Care Organizations
  • Standards-Setting and Recognition of the PCMH 
  • The PCMH Abroad
  • Success stories and "lessons learned" from PCMH initiatives in the field
Join representatives from companies across the stakeholder spectrum for ample networking opportunities and spirited discussion. If you are an action-oriented professional dedicated to advancing the PCMH model, this is THE national meeting for you!
 
Special Keynote Address by
Vincenzo Costigliola, president, The European Medical Association
(primary care medical home activities in Europe and the Middle East)

To register, please click here.

B. Richard Gilfillan, MD To Head CMS Innovation Center

Richard Gilfillan, MD, will be the new Acting Director of the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (“CMI,” or “Innovation Center”) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CMS Administrator Don Berwick announced today. Gilfillan currently directs CMS’ performance-based payment policy staff.

The Affordable Care Act gives the Innovation Center the crucial mission of testing “innovative payment and service delivery models to reduce program expenditures…while preserving or enhancing quality of care.” A CMS spokesperson said that Gilfillan was named in an acting capacity to quickly fill a role vital to the implementation of health reform; the spokesperson said he could not at this point provide a timetable for filling the position on a permanent basis.

“As the Acting Director of CMI, Rick will be working closely with the CMS Deputy group and me to develop and implement innovative programs that will help improve and update the nation’s health care delivery systems under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act,” Berwick wrote in an email message to CMS staffers.

Gilfillan accepted the job directing CMS’ performance-based payment policy staff in August. Before joining CMS, Gilfillan was a consultant for Geisinger Consulting Services, where, Berwick wrote, “he provided consulting services to health care systems and payer organizations regarding the design and implementation of innovative care delivery and financing programs including accountable care organizations, patient-centered medical homes and bundled payment systems.” 

For more information, please click here.

C.  New Deloitte Report Outlines Future of the Medical Home

The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions has released a new issue brief, "Medical Home 2.0: The Present, The Future," outlining the current state of the patient–centered medical home (PCMH) under the new health reform legislation.  The report reviews several PCMH pilots and provides insights on the future evolution of the medical home.  It highlights the expansion of medical home pilots as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) to help reduce costs and improve population-based health by leveraging clinical information technologies, care teams and evidence-based medical guidelines.

The report states that the medical home model's clinical and economic potential is promising; however, the precise features of an optimally successful program are somewhat elusive.  Deloitte's research further indicates the following:

  • With significant investment, the PCMH yields results.
  • Physician adoption is a major challenge.
  • Health Care information technology (HIT) is the essential front-end investment.
  • One size does not fit all.
  • Access to an adequate supply of primary care service providers is an issue.
  • Incentives must be aligned and realistic.

To learn more, please click here.

D. New NASHP Publication - Making Connections: Medicaid, CHIP, and Title V Working Together on State Medical Home Initiatives

The medical home model–an approach to offering excellent primary care–is gaining momentum. A wide range of stakeholders are now embracing medical homes, and the Affordable Care Act has dedicated resources to developing and spreading the model. In this context, states have been leaders in building medical homes – especially for vulnerable populations. Several of the most promising state medical home initiatives have entailed interagency collaboration. This report details best practices and policy considerations for collaborative medical home building in four areas: laying foundations for partnership, and then working together to engage patients and families, engage health care providers and practices, and build strong systems of care. To download the report, please click here.

E. New NASHP Publication - Evaluating the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Potential and Limitations of Claims-Based Data

This State Health Policy Briefing summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of using claims-based data to evaluate patient-centered medical home initiatives. A Medicaid-based medical home initiative in Oklahoma and a multi-payer medical home pilot in Rhode Island are highlighted. Both states are using a mixture of claims-based data and supplementary resources like patient or provider surveys and data collected from electronic medical records to evaluate their medical home programs. Understanding the potential uses and limitations of both claims data and other data sources that can aid evaluators will help states to design appropriate evaluative criteria for their medical home programs.  To download the report, please click here. 

F.  Medicaid Health Plans of America White Paper: Role of Medicaid Health Plans in Patient-Centered Medical Homes

Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA) released a policy statement and white paper highlighting the common ground between Medicaid health plans and the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model. According to MHPA, the capabilities of Medicaid plans are closely aligned with the principles of PCMHs and therefore plans should be included in states' PCMH implementation strategies. MHPA's Policy Statement notes that collaboration between states, medical home providers and health plans is essential for coordinating complex inpatient and outpatient needs of Medicaid beneficiaries.

In Role of Medicaid Health Plans in Patient-Centered Medical Homes, MHPA maintains that Medicaid health plans are well-positioned to support development of a PCMH system for Medicaid beneficiaries. The white paper highlights evidence showing that coordinated, comprehensive primary care as offered in a PCMH can reduce preventable hospitalizations and improve health outcomes. But, the transformation of medical practices into medical homes is time and resource intensive and most medical home demonstrations are in the pilot testing phase. Along with a solid track record of ensuring access to high quality care for Medicaid beneficiaries, health plans have the data, the analytic capability and care management infrastructure to support medical home implementation and aid in physician practice transformation. In partnership with State Medicaid programs, health plans also have the flexibility to adopt payment innovations to reward value.

"The scope of Medicaid health plans - their experience in care coordination, financial management, and quality improvement, as well as their mature data infrastructures for quality and cost reporting in all care settings - makes Medicaid health plans a natural and essential partner with states as they begin to roll out medical homes for the complex and vulnerable populations in their communities," explained Thomas L. Johnson, President and CEO of MHPA. "Medicaid health plans have the capability to link members to primary care physicians, coordinate access to specialists, even facilitate access to care by providing language interpretation services and transportation, a benefit that's especially useful given the unique characteristics of the people they serve."

MHPA encourages states to draw on the valuable experience of Medicaid health plans and include health plans in PCMH implementation strategies. "The Medicaid health plan industry has much to offer and we're looking forward to collaborating with both states and providers to make the PCMH model work to provide better care to Medicaid enrollees," said Mr. Johnson.

To download the paper, please click here.

G.  HealthWarehouse.com Partners with Columbia Medical Associates to Bring Affordable Healthcare to Washington State
 
HealthWarehouse.com, Inc., a leading retail mail-order online pharmacy and Columbia Medical Associates, an outpatient clinic system offering medical home services in the Spokane, Washington metropolitan area, announced a partnership to offer patients a 30-day supply of more than 300 generic prescription medications for $3.50 with free home delivery.
Columbia Medical Associate's "Columbia Care" program offers preventive primary healthcare for as low as $300 per year for individuals.  The partnership will lower prescription drug costs for the program's patients and offer them exceptional convenience when ordering medications. The partnership is also expected to achieve better patient compliance with physician orders, and will offer Spokane area residents with among the lowest costs for primary care and prescription drugs in the country.
 
"Being a leader in cutting costs for preventive primary care, we were looking for a partner with similar aims," said Valeri Steigerwald, President & CEO of Columbia Medical Associates.  "Our partnership with HealthWarehouse.com allows us to bring the same high level of customer service to our patients while providing dramatic cost savings on prescription medications.  We're excited to give residents of Spokane and Eastern Washington an innovative, cost-effective, quality option when evaluating their healthcare needs."
 
"Our partnership brings residents of Spokane a truly comprehensive healthcare offering, providing quality preventive and primary care with life-saving medications at affordable prices," said Lalit Dhadphale, President & CEO of HealthWarehouse.com. "We are excited to partner with Columbia Medical Associates in bringing a fresh new approach to primary care and cost-effective delivery of medications to patients."
 
To learn more, please click here.
 
H.  Journal of Asthma Study: Relationship of Medical Home Quality with School Engagement and After-School Participation Among Children with Asthma.
 
Study Objectives: To examine the relationship between medical home quality and measures of daily life experiences among children with asthma. 
 
Methods: A nationally representative sample of children from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH), aged 6-17 years, who have asthma was used to assess the relationship of a quality medical home and its features with their daily life experiences. Five medical home features - access, continuity, comprehensiveness, family-centered care, and coordination of care - were examined individually and in total in relation to measures of school engagement (missed school days, parents contacted about problems with the child, repeating a grade since kindergarten) and after-school activity participation (physical activity, sports participation, and community service or volunteer work). 
 
Results: Before and after adjustment for personal characteristics, health insurance status, family environment, neighborhood variables, and asthma severity, total medical home score was associated with more days exercised and a greater likelihood of having performed community service or volunteer work. Additionally, the medical home features of access, comprehensiveness, and family-centered care remained favorably associated with three of the six measures of school engagement and after-school activity participation, even after adjustment. 
 
Conclusion: Medical home quality - particularly the features of access, comprehensiveness, and family-centered care - is positively associated with the daily life experiences of children with asthma. Working to enhance these aspects of primary care might be one place to start in improving the management of children's chronic conditions and their quality of life.
 
For more information and to access the study, please click here.

I.  Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas Setting Up PCMH Program

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, a state’s largest illness insurer, pronounced Monday it is implementing a module in 5 North Texas counties to improved stress wellness as well as conduct diseases.

The insurer has combined a supposed medical home module with dual disinfectant groups, Medical Clinic of North Texas as well as Village Health Partners, which yield caring for some-more than 20,000 members in Dallas, Denton, Tarrant, Collin as well as Johnson counties.

The tenure medical home refers to a concurrent complement of initial caring physicians, specialists as well as pharmacists pity a patient’s report electronically. Today, a illness caring complement in Texas as well as a republic is mostly fragmented. Patients with ongoing conditions mostly have been treated with colour for any medical sign rsther than than handling a underlying disease, such as diabetes.

Blue Cross is not a initial illness insurer to introduce such a program. In August, Cigna HealthCare voiced a state’s initial commercially sponsored medical home module with Medical Clinic of North Texas to offer 10,000 patients. An estimated 10 percent of those patients have ongoing conditions as well as have a aloft risk of being certified to an puncture room, Cigna said.

Although insurers have been only embracing a medical home concept, hospitals as well as physicians prolonged have pushed for medical homes. Children’s Medical Center in Dallas invested $2 million to begin Physicians for Children as a nonprofit medical-home hospital complement in Aug 2000.

For more information, please click here.

J.  Maternal and Child Health Federal/State Partnership Meeting - October 20, 2010, Washington D.C.
 
This year's Maternal and Child Health Federal/State Partnership Meeting, to be held on Wednesday, October 20,  at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC,  will commemorate the 75th anniversary of Title V of the Social Security Act. Title V is the longest-standing public health legislation in American history and continues to work to improve the health of women and children. The meeting will bridge the rich history and successes of the Title V Maternal and Child Health Program with new health care priorities and ongoing challenges. The spirit and passion of the Nation's early Maternal and Child Health leaders will be celebrated at the same time that emerging leaders bring new vision and renewed commitment to the planning process for the future.  All individuals and organizations who have worked to improve the health of women, children, including children with special health care needs, and their families over the last 75 years are encouraged to attend this special commemoration sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.  Registration information is being shared broadly with many interested attendees, so please be sure to reserve your space right away by going to http://www.blsmeetings.net/mch75thanniversary/.  Please feel free to share this link with others who may be interested in attending.  For more information on the October 20 meeting, please visit the MCH 75th Anniversary web site at www.hrsa.gov/mchb75<http://www.hrsa.gov/mchb75>.
 
K.  2nd Annual Patient-Centered Medical Home Conference - Journey to High Performance, November 11-13, 2010, Orlando, Fla.
 
The concept of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) continues to evolve. MGMA and TransforMED have gathered a team of your peers and industry experts from around the country to help you navigate those changes and teach you how to succeed in the PCMH model.  To learn more about the conference, please click here.
 
L.  The World Congress Leadership Summit on The Patient-Centered Medical Home - November 17-19, 2010, San Diego, CA
 
Health care reform promotes the Patient-Centered Medical Home as the future of care delivery in the United States – a model to achieve better outcomes and cost savings through effective coordination of care. The World Congress Leadership Summit on the Patient-Centered Medical Home will:
 
  • Outline how health care reform rewards the PCMH model of care
  • Evaluate pros and cons of the PCMH
  • Debate payment reform and impacts on the PCMH
  • Understand how to align incentives for collaboration and success
  • Learn the importance of assessment and identifying gaps to see ways to eliminate waste using LEAN
Register by September 24th and SAVE $100 off* the current rate! - Mention PROMO CODE: EQM278
 
To learn more about this event, please click 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
 
PCPCC Meaninful Use Letter - 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: 
  • BNY Mellon
  • Joslyn Levy & Associates, LLC
 
 
We now have 743 signing members.  
 
V. PCMH in the Press
 
"Colorado's Medical Homes Link Primary Care Physicians, Specialists as Neighbors", Colorado School of Public Health, 'Picture a medical clinic where your primary care physician signals for you to step on the scale, notices your high body mass index, and actually takes a full 10 minutes to discuss your diet, physical activity regimen and health risks. That same medical clinic also ensures there is a team of health professionals, from physicians to specialists, to partner with you to make the best health decisions. In Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) that’s the service patients receive. Started in spring 2009, the Colorado Patient-Centered Medical Home Pilot is testing the PCMH model in 16 medical practices across the state, providing coordinated, comprehensive health care to more than 30,000 Coloradans.'  To read the full article, please click here.
 
"New Program Aims To Improve Health Care", wptz.com, ' A new program in the region aims at improving your health care experience -- one doctor at a time. The Adirondack Region Medical Home allows local doctors to sign up and join the group' To read the full article, please click here.
 
"VISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC: Electronic health records are on the way", North County Times, 'EHR, standing for Electronic Health Records, is a term being tossed around by many people with strong ideas such as "meaningful use." However, "meaningful use" has no meaning for someone who is sick today. What does EHR do for that individual? Does EHR help that individual pay their mortgage? Does EHR get someone's children to school? Does EHR guarantee more time at work?
The answer to these questions is, "Perhaps."'. 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.
  • Center for Consumer Engagement: Engage the consumer in  awareness activities through three ways: day-to-day operations, messaging and pilots.  The center will continue the use of “Patient-Centered Medical Home”, but focus on how the concept and its components are communicated to the public and partner with large consumer groups to capitalize on their visibility and existing efforts.
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 June 1st the Center hosted a second webinar, entitled 'Colorado PCMH Multi-Payer, Multi-State Pilot - A Year in Review'.  Stakeholders from the Colorado pilot covered the structure of their pilot, milestones, measures, data, and the technical assistance provided to participating practices.   A patient spoke about her involvement in the pilot, a practice and hospital shared their work on strengthening communication between the hospital and practice/provider and a practice care coordinator talked about the work being done to improve coordination of care within their medical neighborhood.  There were over 150 participants on the webinar.  Video and audio recordings of the event are posted on the PCPCC website.
 
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 November 2nd 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, July 20th, 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 - Matthew Quinn, Special Expert, Health IT, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
 
Matthew Quinn will join the call to update the group on the work being done by AHRQ on a recently awarded PCMH Information Model Project and the website the Agency launched (www.pcmh.ahrq.gov) in July.
 
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 October 19th at 3PM EST.

C. Center for Employer Engagement
 
On the July 14th phone call, the Center conducted a meeting and tackled a number of important issues, including:

Introductions

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

I.  Introductions

Co-Chairs: Duane Putnam, Pfizer, Inc.; Bruce Sherman, MD, Whirlpool Corporation; Robert Dribbon, Merck & Co., Inc.

 

II.  Update on July 22nd Stakeholder's Working Group Meeting (Boeing and Whirlpool Presentations)

III. Update on September 1st  Executive Strategic Planning  Working Group Meeting

IV. Update on PCMH Metrics work for employers and other purchasers      (Measuring the impact of PCMH on healthcare utilization, cost, quality, absenteeism, presenteeism and employee health status.)

V.  AHIP Link:  Model For Primary Care May Cut Diagnostic Errors

A study from the Baylor College of Medicine finds that clinics that adopt the still-evolving patient-centered medical home model for primary care are less likely to perform diagnostic errors. [ RedOrbit | Aug 18, Medical Home, Clinical Affairs, Health & Wellness ]

VI.  From AMA News Thursday August 12th - Use of "medical homes" saved Illinois $140 million in FY 2009.

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 October 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.
 

On July 8th, the Center co-sponsored a webinar with the CMD featuring:

  • Joslyn Levy and Dana Stephenson  of the NYC Dept. of Health presented on the innovative Primary Care Information Project.  The webinar is now posted on the Collaborative's website.  There were over 150 participants on the presentation.
To view the agenda, 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 October 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 recent call, on September 24th, the following occured.

 

Bringing a Consumer Voice to the Work of the PCPCC

Speakers

Center for Employer Engagement [12:10-12:20]  

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Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange [12:20-12:30]  

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Center to Promote Public Payer Implementation [12:30-12:40]

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Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstration [12:40-12:50]  

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The Center will be having its next call on October 29th at 12:00 PM EST.
 
VII. 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 National Thursday Calls Phone Number: 712.432.3900 Pass Code: 471334– Thursday, 11 AM EST: 2010 -  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
  • General PCPCC Briefings Phone Number: 712.432.3900 Pass Code: 471334 – Monthly - Tuesday, 11 AM EST: 2010 -  5/4, 6/1, 7/13, (no August call) 9/14, 10/5, 11/2, (no December call)
  • Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstration Phone Number: 712.432.3900 Pass Code: 471334 – Bi-weekly - Tuesday, 2 PM EST: 2010:  5/4, 6/15, (no August calls) 10/5, 11/6, 12/7
  • Center for Public Payer Implementation Phone Number: 712.432.3900 Pass Code: 471334 – Monthly - Tuesday, 3 PM EST: 2010 -  5/18,6/15, 7/20, (no August calls) 9/21, 10/19, 11/16, 12/21 
  • Center for Employer Engagement Phone Number: 712.432.3900 Pass Code: 471334 – Bi-weekly - Wednesday, 3 PM EST: 2010 - 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 Phone Number: 712.432.3900 Pass Code: 471334 – Monthly - Thursday, 1 PM EST – 2nd and 4th Thursday of the Month: 2010 -  5/13, 5/27, 6/10, 6/24, 7/8, 9/9, 9/23, 10/14, 10/28, 11/11, 12/9, 12/23.
  • Center for Consumer Engagement Phone Number: 712.432.3900 Pass Code: 471334 – Last Friday of the month, 12pm EST: 4/30, 5/28, 6/25, 7/30, 9/24, 10/29, 12/3
  • Taskforce Activity Calls
  • Mobile Health Communication and Technology in the PCMH Taskforce - Bi-weekly - Thursday, 2pm EST: 5/6, 5/20, 6/3, 6/17
  • Training the Workforce and the PCMH - Bi-weekly - Wednesday, 4pm EST: 5/5, 5/19, 6/16, 6/30, 7/14, 7/28, 9/8, 9/22, 10/6, 10/20, 11/3, 11/17, 12/8
  • Care Coordination and the PCMH (to include Transitions in Care, Home Health, Hospice, and Long Term Care) - Bi-weekly - Wednesday 4pm EST: 5/12, 5/26, 6/9, 6/23, 7/21, 9/15, 9/29, 10/13, 10/27, 11/10, 12/1, 12/15
  • Integrating Behavioral Health into the PCMH - Bi-weekly - Thursday 10am EST:5/6, 5/20, 6/3, 6/17
  • Medication Management and the PCMH - Calls are scheduled as needed
     
VIII.  Executive Committee

There are 52 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 HealthCare; CVS Caremark; DMAA: Care Continuum Alliance; Community Health Collaborative;EHE International; Geisinger Health System; GlaxoSmithKline; Health Care Services Corporation; Humana, Inc.; IBM; Interim HealthCare; Johnson & Johnson; Kaiser Permanente; McKesson Health Solutions; MedAssurant; Medco; Medfusion; Merck; Microsoft; MVP Health Care; National Changing Diabetes Program; NextGen Healthcare Information Systems; Novartis; Nurse Practitioners Roundtable; Pfizer; PhRMA; Phytel; Priority Health; PRISM; 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.; UPMC Health Plan; Walgreens; WellCentive, LLC and Wellpoint.
 
                     
IX. 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; Guy Mansueto, Phytel
 
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), William Rollow, IBM (wrollow@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) 417-2081
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