Primary Care & The Search For Spending Benchmarks

Yesterday, we looked at the expectation that medical homes – and by extension, primary care – underpins efforts to reign in health care spending while improving care (see If Spending on Primary Care Is Key To Cost Containment – What Are We Counting? all members) Today we ask the question: How will we track its progress?

A helpful place to start is with precursor efforts. A little known example of making increased emphasis (and spending) on primary care the key to improving quality and holding down or reducing costs is more than three years underway. In 2009, the Rhode Island Office of the . . .