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Maine Embarks on Health Care Delivery Experiment
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Maine is undertaking an experimental new way to deliver care to patients. A couple dozen primary care practices have signed up to be so-called “medical homes” in a pilot program. A medical home is not about bricks-and-mortar, but a model in which doctors spend more time coordinating their patients’ care—and get paid extra for their efforts.
“Well, I think this pilot project is basically going to be the future of what health care delivery will be,” says Dr. Mark Bouchard, a physician at Maine Medical Center Family practice in Portland, one of 26 practices selected for the three-year project.
Bouchard knows what he would like to do. “Really going through the entire list of our patients and making sure that everybody who needs one has a mammogram ordered, has undergone colon cancer screening, has had their cholesterol checked. Instead of having it driven by the patients, it’s actually bringing the patients in ourselves, it’s running reports and figuring out that this person is behind and actually calling them and reminding them to come in.”
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