PCMH Kids practices are eligible to achieve performance incentive payments based on meeting 3 out of 4 permanence measures thresholds: 2 of which can be clinical quality measures , one can be customer experience measure (2 out of 3 measures for access, communication and office as defined below) and 1 utilization measure (ED usage compared with comparison group).
The governor's office announced this summer that Dr. Kathleen Hittner, the state's Health Insurance Commissioner, would etire from her position effective July 2017.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced in August that all eight R.I. Community Health Centers earned a combined $1.1 million from Health Quality Improvement FY 2017 grant awards.
The CTC Practice Reporting Committee, together with the CTC Data and Evaluation Committee, recommended changes to the 2017 Clinical Quality Measurement Specifications that have been approved by OHIC.
Primary care practices are often challenged by creating consistent processes for stratifying patients based on risk status and using the electronic health record to develop and implement standardized nurse care manager assessment and care plan templates.
Practices will want to Save the Date for the November 7 Learning Collaborative: “Primary Care Works: Effective Strategies to Improve Population Health and Patient Activation”. Peter Anderson MD from Team Care Medicine will be one of the featured keynote presenters.
The mission of CTC-RI is to support the continuing transformation of primary care in Rhode Island as the foundation of an ever-improving integrated, accessible, affordable, and equitable health care system. CTC-RI brings together critical stakeholders to implement, evaluate and spread effective multi-payer models to deliver, pay for and sustain high-quality, comprehensive, accountable primary care.