Patient-centered practices achieve designation

Patient-centered practices achieve designation

Congratulations to the 129 primary care practices (339 physicians) that achieved Patient Centered Medical Home designation from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan!

The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a health care model that strives to facilitate partnerships between individual patients and primary care providers, as well as other caregivers and the patient’s family. The PCMH model is patient-centered, team-based, coordinated and focused on quality and safety for the patient. It relies on the primary care physician to facilitate partnerships with other physicians, health care staff and the patient to ensure necessary care is received and long-term coordination of care is available across the care continuum.

Practices that are designated as a patient-centered medical home seek to adopt new care delivery methods, technologies, and relationships with patients and families.

The Physician Alliance, through facilitation of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan’s Physician Group Incentive Program, works with practices to help achieve the standards set for nomination as a PCMH. There are many key capabilities evaluated for PCMH selection, including advanced registries, population health management tools and other patient-centered solutions to identify alignment. TPA nominates qualified primary care practices to BCBSM each year for consideration for PCMH designation.

Tips for patients:

· Ask your practice about open appointment slots for same day visits if you are sick or need to see your doctor right away. Call the offer before going to the emergency room or urgent care.

· Your primary care physician’s practice should have an after-hours phone number to call if you’re sick. This can prevent unnecessary emergency room visits (call 911 or go to the emergency room if you’re facing a life-threatening emergency).

· Touch base with your primary care physician to determine if you are due for preventive tests, such as mammograms, diabetes eye exams and colonoscopies.

· Download The Physician Alliance’s FREE My Doctors app to store your all of your doctors’ contact information in one location on your smartphone (available in Apples app store and Google Play. Search My Doctors by TPA). This helps ensure correct information is shared wherever you go. Search: My Doctors by TPA.

Contributed by: The Physician Alliance

Read previously published blog articles from our physician members.

This blog is for informational purposes only and should not be considered medical advice. Please consult your doctor for more information or if you have a medical concern.

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