Medical Home Basics

Checklist and Tools

Learning Collaborative

Medical Home Measures

Identifying Patients with Special Needs

Developmental Surveillance & Screening

Care Coordination

Partnering With Families

Family to Family Support

Accessing Community Resources

Culturally Effective Care

Sharing Sensitive News

Transition

Oral Health

Office Organization and Management

Finances and Data Management

Quality Improvement

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Finances and Data Management

Financial Tools for Providers

Children with special health care needs typically take more time and require more services than other children.  Physicians and other primary care providers need to pay attention to finances in order to stay in business.  There are strategies you can take to optimize your coding and reimbursement for medical home services.

The Utah Medical Home Portal has a page for primary care providers on Optimal Coding for Medical Home Services

http://medhome.med.utah.edu/sections/index.cfm?section_id=2&section_content_id=48

The National Center of Medical Home Initatives for Children with Special Needs, American Academy of Pediatrics also has information and tools for to address the financial aspects of serving children and youth with special health care needs.

•Coding and Reimbursement for CSHCN

www.medicalhomeinfo.org/tools/coding.html

•Documentation Guidelines & Sample Forms

•Insurance/Managed Care

From: www.medicalhomeinfo.org/tools/providerindex.html

Physicians may also find the reimbursement strategies helpful in Chapter 3 of Practicing Comprehensive Care: A Physician's Operations Manual for Implementing a Medical Home for Children with Special Health Care Needs. (2000)

www.communityinclusion.org/pdf/compcare.pdf

Data Management

Resources

National Center of Medical Home Initatives for Children with Special Needs, American Academy of Pediatrics

• Identifying Children with Special Health Care Needs

•  Medical Home Measurements
•  Physician Operations Manual
•  Surveys for the Office

From: www.medicalhomeinfo.org/tools/providerindex.html

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