Patient-centered medical home updates

August 4 meeting focused on PCMH
Priority Health continues its support of the patient-centered medical home model. On August 4, members of the Community Medical Directors Committee, physician hospital organization administrators and employers heard more on this topic from Chief Medical Officer Jim Byrne, MD.

Dr. Byrne noted Priority Health continues to look at payment reform issues. He also noted the Michigan Primary Care Consortium Payer Partnership is working to develop consistency across plans and payers on reimbursement tied to adopting the medical home model.

TransforMED CEO & President Terry McGeeney, MD, MBA, spoke on the topic of health care reform and the medical home. Internist Terri Osborne, MD, of MMPC/Lake Drive, addressed the topic from the provider’s perspective. Her practice is one of the Priority Health pilot sites. “The role of the provider is to remember the patient,” she said.

Patient-centered medical home grants total $1.25 million
Priority Health awarded $1.25 million in grants to fund 10 projects representing primary care practices across the state of Michigan. The projects will assist the practices in the transformation to patient-centered medical homes. In all, 21 grant applications were received. Awardees are:

• Allegiance Family Medicine, Townsend
• St. Joseph Mercy Health System, Ann Arbor
• Little Traverse Primary Care, Harbor Springs/Petoskey
• Michigan Medical PC, Grand Rapids
• Lakeshore Health Network, Muskegon
• West Michigan Physicians Network, Grand Rapids
• Metro Health Physician Hospital Organization, Grand Rapids
• Pine Medical Group PC, Fremont
• Spectrum Health Primary Care Partners, Grand Rapids
• Principal Health Physician Hospital Organization, Holland