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I am about to embark on the application to become a Patient Centered Medical Home... not without some trepidation. Is anyone out there using Amazing Charts in a PCMH? If so, I'd appreciate any advice you can offer.

I've been in solo practice for 8 years but I'm merging with a local Federally Qualified Health Center which is a Medical Home already, using eClinicalWorks.

Thanks.

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Please inform me of the real benefits of doing such a thing? Do "they" really reimburse you significantly more...more than enough to cover all of the data collection and transmission "they" will require? Any other perks?

Be careful. Google mddatacor and see that this "medical home" is a publicly traded wall st. company looking to get us to enter our data.

A really good article in the recent Annals can be found here
http://www.annals.org/content/154/1/60.full

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Need to be a subscriber...and I'm not.

You could email the author at csinsky1@mahealthcare.com

You can actually get about $3-4 per member per month bonus for patients from payors who offer it. I have a practice with a lot of Managed Medicaid (they pay rates better than my wealthy landlord's insurance with fewer cumbersome rules!). We'll have to do some tracking but it's not anything too onerous. More like week or month long projects that the front office will be asked to keep track of.

Thanks.

The NJAFP is offering to assist in getting PCMH certified through a series of webinars and conference calls. It occurs b/w now and June and then you should be prepared for to submit your application. They are using the 2008 NCQA tool. The cost is over $2000. Is it worth it or should I just proceed with the new 2011 ncqa tool and do it myself?

It's getting late to reply to this but if you can complete at least stage 1 by the 2008 standards you'll be way better off than trying to meet the much more strict 2011 requirements. I'm told the certification is good for 3 years during which you can try to increase from stage 1 up to 2 or stage 3 during those 3 years and it's by the 2008 guidelines. I'm in the middle of it now and the key thing (besides all the leg work getting all the screenshots, reports and office policies) is 90 days of consecutive reporting. If you can produce 90 days of reports (and this can be back dated it just has to be from calendar year 2011) then you can apply and submit as late as 12/31/2011.

you should really look into this and be sure you want to do it. really really sure. PCMH and ACO look like rip-offs to me.