The number of primary care providers in New York State adopting a high-performing, health care delivery model known as the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) rose by more than 35 percent between May 2017 and May 2018, a dramatic increase in the rate of growth over prior years, according to a recently released United Hospital Fund report.
Over the past eight years the number of clinicians working in PCMH practices has increased at an average rate of roughly 15 percent a year, from 3,400 clinicians in 2011 to more than 9,000 at the end of May 2018. The recent growth coincides with the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program, the state’s Medicaid reform initiative, which provided incentives for health systems to help practices to adopt the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s (NCQA) PCMH model, in which all or most of a patient’s health care needs are coordinated through a primary care physician.
The report, Patient-Centered Medical Homes in New York, 2018 Update: Drivers of Growth and Challenges for the Future, is part of a series UHF has produced since 2011 tracking the adoption of the PCMH model across New York State.
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