Montana Patient-Centered Medical Home

Patient-Centered Medical Home in Montana
What is Montana's Definition of a "Patient-Centered Medical Home"?
In Montana, a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is health care directed by primary care providers offering family centered, culturally effective care that is coordinated, comprehensive, continuous, and, when possible, in the patient's community and integrated across systems. Health care is characterized by enhanced access, an emphasis on prevention, and improved health outcomes and satisfaction. Primary care providers receive payment that recognizes the value of medical home services. (from the Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance (CSI) website)
HealthShare Montana and Covisint/DocSite We are proud to announce that we have been selected to provide the electronic infrastructure that will support the Montana Blue Cross/Blue Shield Patient-Centered Medical Home Project.

	The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is a private, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. Since its founding in 1990, NCQA has been a central figure in driving improvement throughout the health care system, helping to elevate the issue of health care quality to the top of the national agenda.
Montana will use standards accepted by NCQA PCMH to recognize a primary care clinic as eligible for the pilot project as a medical home and potentially to receive enhanced reimbursement.
PCMH - Patient-Centered Medical Home NCQA - National Committee for Quality Assurance Montana CSI - Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance Covisint/DocSite - The electonic healthcare solution that HealthShare Montana is utilizing to create a statewide health information exchange for Montana For more information about the Montana PCMH project, contact us here at HealthShare Montana or e-mail Christine Kaufmann, or call her at (406) 444-3152.

This project is funded in whole or in part under a contract with the Montana Department of Public Health
and Human Services. The statements herein do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Department.