Is Your Organization Ready To Be ‘The’ Care Coordinator?

The big push in health and human services is to find a provider organization to take on the responsibility for comprehensive care coordination for consumers including some degree of financial risk for the results in terms of consumer outcomes and consumer health care spending. The role of this comprehensive care coordination organization goes by many names – medical home, health homes, specialty medical homes, behaviorally led health homes, totally accountable care organizations. But what they all share is that accountability for the total outcomes for a single consumer.

There is a lot of competition for this care coordination role – among primary . . .