FMAHealth Releases Strategic Goals
Dayton DO Serves as Officer of New Collaboration
(September 2015) Family Medicine for America's Health released a set of campaign goals for transforming the nation's primary care system. These goals reflect a vision and approach to modernize family medicine and primary care:
- Access: Increase patient accessibility to their primary care team, including remote access to patient records, electronic communication with their care team and availability after hours.
- Engagement: Encourage every practice to have a patient advisory council or similar mechanism to facilitate meaningful and ongoing patient engagement.
- Transparency: Increase transparency in pricing of health care services and educate patients to better understand the cost of care.
- Integration: Integrate public and mental health into the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and add care managers, health coaches and population health professionals to the primary care team. Incorporate training to practice in a team-based setting into graduate medical education.
- Recruitment: Support policies that drive at least 40 percent of medical students toward primary care specialties with the goal of increasing the number of primary care physicians by a minimum of 52,000 by 2025.
- Payment: Sunset fee-for-service payment in primary care. Work with public and private payers to adopt a uniform and simplified model of comprehensive payment that encourages front-end investment in expanded practice infrastructure and technology, rewards Triple Aim goals (better care, better health and lower costs) and supports broad, team-based care. Support efforts to drive HHS goal of having 85 percent of Medicare payments tied to quality or value by 2016 and 90 percent by 2018.
FMAHealth is is a collaboration between the eight leading family medicine organizations in the United States to drive continued improvement of the US health care system and demonstrate the value of true primary care. Those groups are American Academy of Family Physicians; American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians; American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation; American Board of Family Medicine; Association of Departments of Family Medicine; Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors; North American Primary Care Research Group; and Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
Paul A. Martin, DO, of Dayton, serves as secretary/treasurer of the organization.
For more information, see http://fmahealth.org/.
