Comments on: Swedish opens “medical home” clinic in Ballard

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By: MMc123

MMc123 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:45:13 +0000

The New Yorker article Mr. Burneko cites in his comment is "The Cost Connundrum: what a Texas town can teach us about health care" by Atul Gawande, which is available for free online at:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090...

By: Guy Burneko

Guy Burneko — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:29:20 +0000

I am immensely grateful this idea is being put into practice, especially after reading the penetrating and intelligent discussion of the issues in the June 1 issue of the New Yorker.

And I am the more grateful it is taking place in Ballard.

As soon as I send this note, I will request additional information by email. I need affordable coverage.

My compliments to you for this beginning of sane, non-commodified health care.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:25:19 +0000

Good points. Program does have a familiar ring. Swedish docs admit it’s an experiment. Cost and outcomes will be the measure of success. In favor of the approach they point to success of similar approaches within systems like Kaiser and Group Health. Whether the approach will work outside of such systems will be the test, they say.

By: what is old is new again

what is old is new again — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:18:05 +0000

Sorry doc, but this is just old primary care capitation that went out of favor, just recycled again with email visits and same day appointments tossed in. The old $30 pmpm of the mid 90′s now reinvented to $45 pmpm thanks to inflation. It really is a good idea and I was sad to see it go out of favor 10 plus years ago. Most plans that used primary care capitation did a fee for service equivalency and figured out the pcp’s were making too much and retracted back to fee for service. Short sighted as primary care capitation saved money but the health plans wanted the savings to go to them and not the pcp. So the message to the pcp’s was to churn once again. Crazy system isn’t it. Taking the health plans out of the equation is the way to go.