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This article analyzes potential barriers in the U.S. to the patient-centered medical home model, which is considered policy shorthand for the reinvention of primary care. Barriers include developing new payment models, personnel and infrastructure funding, and methods to facilitate transforming...
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This article co-authored with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, examines the distinct and complementary roles practice facilitators and care managers play in redesigning and improving primary care delivery. Practice facilitators coordinate practice quality improvement and redesign...
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Health care reform may provide opportunities to enhance the mental health treatment capacity of primary care, but capitalizing on these opportunities might require bolstering the clinical skills of the primary care team. This article proposes a set of core mental health treatment and...
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overall cost of primary care visits, such a fee increase would yield more than a sixfold annual return in lower total Medicare …
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Systems of care for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances have historically not included linkages with primary care. As part of a special issue of Evaluation and Program Planning focused on redefining systems of care, this article proposes that the inclusion of primary care as...
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This paper uses a hybrid cost model to identify determinants of cost variation among programs that offer early … traditional economic cost functions with institutional factors based on program and patient characteristics on the cost of … cost savings through greater economies of scale and substitutability of low-cost for high-cost labor inputs. Similarly …
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