Despite the growing promise that the patient-centered medical home healthcare model offers, even many large physician practices lack the essential elements to create a medical home for patients to receive care, according to a new study published in the September/October issue of Health Affairs.
When researchers examined large medical groups with at least 20 physicians, they found that these physician practices are lagging on key measures of what it takes to create a “medical home,” a model of healthcare delivery that emphasizes comprehensive primary care to ensure the best outcomes for patients.
The largest of the groups in the study--those with more than 140 physicians--and those owned by a hospital or health maintenance organization scored highest on critical measures of the medical home model, perhaps because they have more resources to invest, said the researchers. Read the abstract.
