• Modern healthcare · Oct 2013

    Finding their way home. Despite mixed evidence, providers and payers are adopting patient-centered medical homes to improve health and cut costs.

    • Andis Robeznieks.
    • Mod Healthc. 2013 Oct 7; 43 (40): 6-7, 18-9, 2.

    AbstractMedical homes are proliferating, though not everyone is convinced they'll produce savings. Don't tell that to the Michigan Blues, which since 2008 has helped more than 1,200 primary-care practices qualify as medical homes, with another 1,000 in the process. The insurer calculates that the project saved it $155 million in 2012 alone. "Those are dollar savings observed in claims data--these are not back-of-the-envelope calculations," says Dr. David Share, of the Michigan Blues.

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