Good Health and Medicare's Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative - A Two Year Report. Elvonda

After all the buzz ( for example ) around the coming launch of CMS' Comprehensive Primary Care " Plus " program ,  the New En...

Good Health and An Update on the Evidence of the Impact of the Patient Centered Medical Home on Cost and Quality: Of Soup and Weather Vanes . Elvonda

In its work with a variety of payer and provider customers, the Population Health Blog has advised that primary care medical home planning i...

Good Health and You Get What You Pay For in Cancer Care and Insurers Get What They Save With the Medical Home. Elvonda

The latest issue of Health Affairs is out and the Population Health Blog couldn't stay away.  Three interesting articles: The United S...

Good Health and The Patient Centered Medical Home, Medicare's Comprehensive Primary Care Intiative and Cost Neutrality. Elvonda

Like this, but with snow Oh my, he was really angry . Back when the teenage Population Health Blog was living in New York, our family had a ...

Good Health and Health Policy Insights from the Medical Home Summit: Wellness, ACOs. Elvonda

The Opening Ceremony of The Medical Home Summit The Population Health Blog is back home after attending the intellectually rewarding Populat...

Good Health and Health Care Cost Insights and Capitation for the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH). Elvonda

The Population Health Blog finally caught up with the Oct 22/29 "Price, Cost and Competition" issue of JAMA .  One of the more int...

Good Health and The Most Interesting Man In the World Teaches the PHB about the Medical Home. Elvonda

The Population Health Blog isn't sure why its Twitter account was targeted by the Dos Equis ads about the exploits of " the world...

Good Health and CMS Succumbs to Disease Management Style Spin?. Elvonda

If, thanks to the medical home or disease management, you've witnessed the improvements in patients' care, you've also probably ...

Good Health and The Cost-Saving Elevator-Pitch for the Patient Centered Medical Home. Elvonda

Ready, set, elevator, go! Over the last year, several colleagues have asked the Population Health Blog to compactly summarize the economic r...

Good Health and The Patient Centered Medical Home PCMH Gets On Base with Increased Quality in the Real World. Elvonda

Getting to first base Advocates for the Patient Centered Medical Home will probably like what they see in the lead research article in the J...

Good Health and Is the Severity-Intensity Model a Roadmap for Fraud and Abuse?. Elvonda

First, I'd like to thank all the hard-working staff and volunteers at the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) for the effort th...