It’s a New Health Care Environment

Chronic not episodic conditions are the biggest threats to population health, accounting for over 75% of total health care spending in the US. Chronic care improvement will dominate health care in the 21st Century.

Provider Profiling and Benchmarking Are Here to Stay

Health care purchasers and health plans are aggressively profiling and benchmarking physician, practice, and hospital performance. Performance improvement will be expected of providers.

Pay for Performance and Improvement Will Grow

Medicare is leading private payers in the shift toward value-based purchasing of physician services.  CMS Physician Quality Reporting (PQRI) Initiative payments will rise to 2% in 2009 and 2010.

The Patient-Centered Medical Home is the Future of Family Medicine

The American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) medical home model has been widely endorsed by physician, payer and health plan organizations—and is currently the roadmap for chronic care improvement in primary care.

The Opportunity for Primary Care  

Primary care-based teams who can implement the medical home model and work collaboratively with other disciplines to prevent and manage chronic conditions will prevail in the new health care environment.    

Success Will Require Prepared Professionals & Teams

Research on high performing physician practices teams underscores the importance of engaged and prepared practice teams, who embrace the culture of improvement, new roles, and new professional competencies.

Chronic Care Professional (CCP) Certification

Since 2004, CCP Certification has helped regional teams and small and large provider groups adapt and apply the innovations and best practices in population health improvement, chronic care improvement, evidence-based medical care, patient partnering, behavior change facilitation and health promotion and coaching. Learn more.

CCP certification can help you and your key team members succeed in the new health care environment. Earn 40 hours of Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit or register key members of your team for the only nationally recognized interdisciplinary chronic care improvement development and certification program. Learn more>>