An Introduction to the Patient-Centered Medical Home
Abstract
The Patient-Centered Medical Home is a redesign of office practice that maintains the core values of traditional family medicine, creates health care teams that track and improve patient care, improves access, satisfaction and patient-centeredness, and is supported by reformed reimbursement. The Affordable Care Act has acknowledged the role of the Patient-Centered Medical Home and contains many components that support the study and expansion of the model. This first offering in a series of articles on the Patient-Centered Medical Home will provide an introduction to the principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home, its place in national delivery demonstration projects and accountable care organizations, and a description of some of the changes practices can begin to make in the transition to a medical home.
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Accepted 2014-01-17
Published 2014-01-01
