Benefits of Implementing the PCMH: A Review of COST & QUALITY RESULTS, 2012

"This report updates our earlier reviews of the cost and quality data from 2009 and 2010, and the findings are clear, consistent, and compelling: Data demonstrates that the PCMH improves health outcomes, enhances the patient and provider experience of care, and reduces expensive, unnecessary hospital and emergency department utilization. The results meet the goals of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim for better health outcomes, better care, and lower costs.The momentum for transforming the U.S. health system is reaching the tipping point, and the PCMH and primary care are central to this goal. The current fragmented health system that pays for volume over value is riddled with inefficiencies, has highly variable health outcomes, is not financially  sustainable, and is no longer acceptable..." Click here to read the full report.  [Source: Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative]