Praise for PCSP

“NCQA’s Patient-Centered Specialty Practice Recognition is an important step forward. I sincerely hope the specialty community embraces it, just as the primary care world has embraced the Patient-Centered Medical Home.”
Ed Wagner, MD, MPH
Creator of the Chronic Care Model

Patient-Centered Specialty Practice Recognition

 

PCSP SealThe enormous success of NCQA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition program has helped many primary care practices make the transformation to a medical home. NCQA is reinforcing the importance of strong connections between primary and specialty care and supporting care coordination by developing a recognition program for specialty practices engaged in the patient-centered model.

This program recognizes specialty practices that have successfully coordinated care with their primary care colleagues and each other, and that meet the goals of providing timely access to care and continuous quality improvement. Additionally, the program addresses reducing the duplication of tests, measuring performance and improving communication with patients.

 

Learn more about PCSP Recognition by joining our NCQA Experts in Annapolis, MD this Summer for our Inaugural Seminar!

Specific questions and inquiries can be sent to pcsp@ncqa.org. 

Click here to join our PCSP mailing list to learn the latest news about Patient-Centered Speciality Practice.

 See the list of Early Adopters.

 

Resources 

 

PCSP Smart Path 

For more information, please e-mail pcsp@ncqa.org or call (888) 275-7585, M-F, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET.

Atul Gawande on Ending Fragmented Care

 

NCQA had already begun developing our Patient-Centered Specialty Practice program when, in a 2012 meeting with NCQA on another topic, surgeon-author Atul Gawande aptly described the fragmented care this program can help curtail.

See what he said about NCQA and about ending fragmented care. 


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