Date: September 29, 2014
Time: 10:00 a.m. EST (What time does this event begin where I am?)
Several provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are directed at the establishment and promotion of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH)--a model for evaluating health care quality that originated in the field of pediatrics. With this increasing emphasis on the PCMH concept, it is important to ensure that policymakers have a valid measure for evaluating it, particularly at the state level, which is where national policy goals are primarily evaluated
On a September 29th SHARE webinar, Urban Institute researchers Lisa Clemans-Cope and Victoria Lynch will present findings from their SHARE-funded analysis of the current standard survey-based measure used to study the PCMH for children. The researchers will discuss several issues surrounding this measure that bring the validity of the measure into question. These issues include:
- The way that missing survey information is treated when computing the measure of PCMH for children
- The extent to which children with special health care needs are less likely to be identified as having a medical home compared to children without such needs
- The extent to which states with a higher proportion of children with special health care needs appear to have lower proportions of children with a medical home
This analysis has important implications for the development of survey measures of PCMH going forward, especially as the PCMH gains broader traction under the ACA and states increasingly seek to measure it as an indicator of care quality.
SHADAC Investigator and survey methodologist Kathleen Call will act as a respondent to the presentation from Dr. Clemans-Cope and Ms. Lynch.
Webinar attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions.
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