Finding a ‘Medical Home’ for $2 a Month


	Finding a ‘Medical Home’ for $2 a Month

Willow Street

2-12-2008 10:01 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f8790ab3-d545-4b59-b12c-3de03e91d2c0/4A0A03BC-A4AC-4BBB-89FD-8E100346A673/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/02/12/finding-a-medical-home-for-2-a-month/" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/02/12/finding-a-medical-home-for-2-a-month/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.wsj.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/02/12/finding-a-medical-home-for-2-a-month/">Good primary care is cheap, country doctor Benjamin Brewer <A target="blank" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120277184155560513.html">declares in his latest WSJ.com column</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/02/12/finding-a-medical-home-for-2-a-month/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.wsj.com/img/83BBCF3D-69BA-40DD-8391-4A5532CE2A89" alt="null" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/02/12/finding-a-medical-home-for-2-a-month/">It’s almost become cliché to speak of “soaring health-care costs,” so it’s rather jarring to see the words “cheap” and “care” in the same sentence. But Brewer says good quality primary care is “cheaper than your cellphone bill. Cheaper than a tank of gas. Cheaper than dinner and a movie.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/02/12/finding-a-medical-home-for-2-a-month/">Brewer’s practice is taking part in an Illinois Medicaid program that aims to address both problems by placing patients in “medical homes.” No, not a physical home. Instead the plan, <A target="blank" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/01/31/building-a-medical-home-takes-money/">like some others being tried</A>, would match people with doctors’ offices that would play an active role in coordinating the patients’ care.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/02/12/finding-a-medical-home-for-2-a-month/">Brewer adds that patients who don’t have a medical home incur higher health costs and report more illness.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4A0A03BC-A4AC-4BBB-89FD-8E100346A673/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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