PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICAL HOME PILOT
 Imagine a doctor’s office that revolves around the patient. A caring team knows your name, greets you with a plan to achieve your health goals, answers emails quickly and provides same-day appointments so you can see your doctor immediately when you are sick.
The Colorado Trust has granted $1.4 million over two years to the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative to work with the state’s largest health plans to test the patient-centered medical home concept. As health care reform takes center stage in Washington, DC, this model of a health care delivery system is gaining momentum for its potential to improve the quality of care and reduce costs.
Participating physicians in 17 primary care practice sites across Colorado – serving about 22,000 patients – will receive a standard fee-for-service, a monthly care management fee and bonuses for meeting or exceeding quality outcomes outlined in the program. The Trust, along with The Commonwealth Fund and the Harvard School of Public Health, will evaluate this pilot program to improve primary care delivery by aligning high quality, coordinated care with financial incentives.
“The medical home concept is all about teamwork,” said Dr. David Ehrenberg, a Broomfield-based family physician who is participating in the program announced June 18 at the State Capitol. “This new model of care will play an instrumental role in helping the health care industry understand how best to implement and benefit from the medical home concept on a broad scale.”
For more information, please contact Laurel Petralia, Program Officer, 303-837-1200.
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