Patient-centered medical homes

Aetna Better Health believes that the patient-centered medical home is the central model for effective and efficient delivery of comprehensive primary care to enrollees in the Integrated Care Program. Medical homes have the potential to positively impact the health status of our Enrollees through:

• Designation of a personal primary care provider (PCP)
• A whole-person orientation
• Use of evidence-based medicine and health information technology
• Integration/coordination of care across an enrollee’s conditions, providers and settings

We expect the development of “well-resourced medical homes” to unfold as our collaboration with providers increases, given the developmental nature of the concept and execution of medical homes nationally. Our first step in establishing a network of medical homes will be to survey provider practices to determine those that have the key characteristics of a medical home/PCP. More information will be sent out to the network in the event that we receive the contract award from the state.