Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Improving Diabetes Care in Communities (continued)

• Memphis
  • Improve follow-through care for diabetics
  • Predominant solo-practice physicians find Chronic Care Model difficult to implement
  • Dr. James Bailey, U of T—Memphis champions use of Advanced Medical Home model (AMH) with case managers and MDs at Medplex clinic
  • MBGH convenes primary care MDs and Medicaid—TLC Healthplan to explore implementation barriers and revised payment policy
  • Health plans draft metrics to measure AMH implementation and performance
• Expected result: better care coordination spreads in climate of favorable payment policy