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AHII Medical Home Pilot

The purpose of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama sponsored pilot is to analyze the medical home concept and to trend both process of care and patient outcome data over an 18-24 month period. At the conclusion of the pilot we hope to better understand the time and monetary efforts required by a practice to attain and maintain a medical home environment as well as being able to produce tangible data in favor of the medical home approach to care.

Program Structure

Phase I
Time Period: September 1, 2009 through September 1, 2010
The focus of Phase I is to encourage and support the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) Physician Practice Connections®- Patient-Centered Medical Home™ (PPC-PCMH) Recognition at the pilot facilities.

Phase II
Time Period: January 2010 through December 2010
The focus of Phase II is to work with NCQA recognized facilities in a collaborative effort to measure patient experience data and define outcome measure thresholds for Phase III of the pilot. Practices will begin Phase II upon receiving NCQA PPC-PCMH recognition.

Phase III
Time Period: January 2011 through December 2011
The focus of Phase III is to reward physicians based on outcome performance.

NCQA Educational Information

NCQA Standards and Guidelines Educational Teleconferences

The NCQA staff discusses the basic content of the standards for each respective recognition program. The workshop provides basic information about each program and the criteria for becoming recognized.

Who should attend? Anyone considering applying or completing an application for recognition.
What does the program cost? The educational teleconference is free.
Does it require registration? No, it is a WebEx presentation and does not require registration.
How can I participate? Print or download the appropriate PowerPoint training presentation posted on the NCQA web site before the training session. The telephone number and directions for teleconference participation is listed on the NCQA web site.

Click here to obtain a calendar of scheduled NCQA teleconferences from their web site.

Click here to access the NCQA Training PowerPoint presentation that provides an overview of the program along with detailed examples of the requirements for each standard within the NCQA PPC-PCMH.

NCQA PPC-PCMH WebEx Training

NCQA has provided a free recording of training on understanding the standards to be recognized as a patient-centered medical home and how to complete the PPC-PCMH survey process.
We strongly encourage all practices to review this entire training session. This will help each practice understand the process of completing the survey. It will also help ease communication about the PPC-PCMH between practices, the sponsor, and NCQA. The training is approximately 2 hours long.
To access the WebEx training, click here and enter the password ppcpcmhg1.