When You’ve Seen One Health Home, You’ve Seen One Health Home

Recently we received a question from one of our readers – “All health homes have to provide the six core services as outlined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), so are all health home programs basically the same, or do you see wide variations among health home models?”

The short answer: yes and no. Although CMS has some rules in place, states have wide latitude in implementing their health home programs (for a definition of health homes, see Medical Home V. Health Home – Confused?). They are able to define what each of the six core functions mean and . . .