Advanced Primary Care (APC) is a practice that shifts the focus of primary care toward quality. Instead of focusing on numbers, APC ensures patients are provided with high-quality care. APC allows providers to be free of traditional time constraints due to the need of seeing a high volume of patients. In turn, this allows clinicians to spend more time and provide more comprehensive care to their patients. In addition, if a patient needs to be referred to a specialist for more additional services, APC practices have the ability to maintain that relationship and ensure that the patient’s care is thoroughly coordinated throughout the treatment process. The improved effectiveness of primary care at the population level leads to substantial decreases in cost for the patients.
The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a care-delivery model that reorganizes the way that primary care is provided to patients. The PCMH allows the patients to have one centralized location where they can receive all of their primary care services. This allows the practice staff to provide more comprehensive and coordinated care that is focused on the patient and their particular needs. The PCMH is committed to provided quality care that is evidence-based and backed by research.
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Patient-Centered Medical Homes Generate Fewer, Cheaper ED Visits:PCMHs see slower growth in ED visits, lower payment per beneficiary | MedPage Today | March 14, 2015 |
The Ongoing Quest for Quality | MedPage Today | May 28, 2015 |
The PCMH Year That Was and the One Ahead | MedPage Today | June 19, 2014 |
Reform will be built on primary care base | MedPage Today | May 3, 2013 |
The Patient-Friendly ER: From Hello to Goodbye | MedPage Today | February 13, 2014 |
Medical homes: Where coordinated care 'resides' | Bankrate | May 8, 2013 |
More Older Adults With Joint Replacements Recover At Home, Not Rehab | Kaiser Health News | March 28, 2019 |
ACOs’ Coordinated Care Savings May Be Contagious | Kaiser Health News | August 28, 2013 |
The North Carolina Experiment: How One State Is Trying To Reshape Medicaid | Kaiser Health News | October 20, 2015 |
A Framework for the Design of Effective Primary Care Systems | Forbes | May 4, 2018 |