6 best practices of patient-centered medical homes

"There's no one way to set up a medical home or one way for paying a medical home," said Laura Etchen, partner at healthcare consulting company The Chartis Group in Chicago at the American College of Healthcare Executives' annual congress in Chicago on Monday. Half of active medical homes receive payment incentives, although payment models can range from pay-for-performance or gain sharing to global primary care payment, among others, according to FierceHealthcare's Karen Cheung. Even though medical homes can vary, experts shared their lessons learned at a "Pioneering the Patient-Centered Medical Home" conference session. - read the full report from FierceHealthcare