Major American employers announced last week that they were uniting with major physician groups to form a patient-centered primary care collaborative with the intention of transforming how primary care is organized and financed. By advancing a model of care--the patient-centered medical home--the collaborative hopes to provide better outcomes to patients, more appropriate payment to physicians, and better value, accountability, and transparency to purchasers and consumers.
As of May 8, members of the collaborative included the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, the American Osteopathic Association, the National Association of Community Health Centers, the ERISA Industry Committee, Exelon Corp., General Motors, IBM, the National Business Group on Health, Walgreens Strategic Health Initiatives, and Wyeth.
