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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

MDPCP is a multi-payer "advanced primary care" program modeled after previous patient-centered medical home projects such as the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation's (CMMI) Comprehensive Primary Care initiative. Also, patients may not have a choice of specialists, depending on the insurer's network.

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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MBC is much more than simply administering behavioral health measures. MBC entails equal emphasis on the phases of Collect, Share, and Act , which include repeated data gathering, communication/review of the data with the patient and team, and adjusting treatment based on this information. (2) 3, 4) Why is MBC important?

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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At that time, I was working on the opposition because my view was it was a false choice for people until they had a full array of services, including palliative care that was really not hospice and palliative care weren’t very well known or available in the early ’90s. Is your brain hurting yet with all these questions?

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‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options

Physician's Weekly

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. Health insurers issue millions of denials every year. He weighed 97 pounds and wasn’t expected to survive a year with stage 4 cancer.