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 hospital and 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 today's health systems.

The Opportunity for Health Systems

Health systems who can partner with community-based teams to implement chronic care improvement and medical home models, and support effective interdisciplinary teams, will prevail in the new health care environment.    

Chronic Care Professional (CCP) Certification

Since 2004, CCP Certification has helped health system and community-based teams in the US and Canada 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. As the only nationally recognized interdisciplinary chronic care certification, the CCP program can help your health system succeed in the new health care environment. Learn more.