Hospital Physician Relationships
46% of physician practices do not qualify as medical homes, according to a news release from the University of Michigan Health System.
“Our study findings are particularly worrisome because the medical home model of care is seen as providing higher quality, more cost-efficient care,” lead author John Hollingsworth, MD, MS, said in the release. “Ideally, medical homes will help keep patients with chronic diseases from getting lost in the shuffle of our complex, fragmented healthcare system, yet a growing number of patients do not have access to them.”
Read more about this Hospital Physician Relations article, and others, at Becker’s Hospital Review: Study: 46% of Physician Practices Don’t Qualify as Medical Homes | Hospital-Physician Relationships.