Oregon’s Patient-Centered Primary Care Homes Cut All-Payer Health Care Spending By $240 Million From 2012-2014

Between 2012 and 2014, the Oregon patient-centered primary care home (PCPCH) model cut health care spending in the state by $240 million. About 90% of Medicaid beneficiaries are enrolled in a PCPCH. Total per person service expenditures dropped by 4.2%, or about $41 per person per quarter (or $14 per member per month). For all payers in the state, every $1 increase in primary care spending via PCPCHs resulted in $13 in overall savings to the state’s health care system.

Savings increased the longer clinics held the PCPCH recognition. On average during the first year of PCPCH . . .