Behavioral Health Integrator

HITEQ's AirTable interactive PCMH Support Tool is intended to help health centers gauge track and support their transformation process for achieving PCMH recognition.

In this webinar, the HITEQ Center provided a broad overview of NCQA's Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition for 2017, including overall structure, timing, and evidence options that are new to 2017. The new standards focus on continuous practice transformation, flexibility including a new virtual review process, comprehensive integrated care, and increased alignment with existing initiatives. We reviewed what this means for health centers, what is required, and identified tools or processes that health centers can use to support PCMH recognition.

The redesigned PCMH 2017 requirements focus on assessing a practice’s transformation into a medical home and specify goals for improvement. There is a new recognition requirement structure: concepts, competencies, and criteria.

This tool is for use by health centers interested in assessing their readiness for Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) under the 2014 Standards. It can be used by first time users as well as those seeking a renewal. The tool walks organizations through the requirements for each of the standards, elements, and factors for NCQA PCMH recognition by providing a way of tracking what they currently have in place and what they are missing, a list of supporting materials to submit to NCQA, as well as Health IT tools that can support both the implementation of the required factors as well as the generation of the documents/reports needed for submission.

This brief describes how El Rio Community Health Center engaged payers to help identify high risk patients and optimize the health of all of their patients through patient-centered, coordinated care.