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PCPs ready to prove 'medical home' concept
Former Print Version: Disease Management News, February 23, 2007
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As some of the Medicare Health Support project vendors report mediocre results, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is preparing to test the concept of a "medical home," using primary care physicians (PCP) to manage patients with chronic conditions. Physician organizations have long pressed for such a demonstration project and enthusiastically support the CMS plan, saying it could show that doctors are best suited to manage patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure, and other chronic illnesses, and therefore should be paid to do so.
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