Under the strategic partnership, Medtronic will provide eligible CDPHP members access to state-of-the-art technologies, supplies, and education and training support services to manage their diabetes.
The agreement also provides an opportunity for CDPHP members to proactively engage in their diabetes management through a patient engagement program, known as Medtronic Inner CircleSM.
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CDPHP also team on such health efforts as MTM, medical nutrition therapy and immunizations.
Cheetham is a Senior Statistician at Capital District Physicians' Health Plan (
CDPHP).
CDPHP launched its Enhanced Primary Care Initiative, which uses the PCMH features of patient-centered care and combines it with a global payment model, he explained.
But rather than focus exclusively on patients with chronic conditions or build a dedicated space for the medical home clinic, primary care physicians in the
CDPHP program convert their existing practices to a new way of operating.
Although
CDPHP's board has authorized spending $1 million to fund the demonstration project, "We realize that's seed money.
Although only about 40% of each of the practice's panel is composed of
CDPHP enrollees,
CDPHP will pay a bonus based on every patient in the panel.
Editor's Note: In the Summer 1994 issue of Organizational Dynamics, the authors described a change effort at Capital District Physicians' Health Plan (
CDPHP), an HMO located in upstate New York.
In 1987, severe financial problems had the Capital District Physicians' Health Plan (known as
CDPHP or "the Plan") on the brink of receivership.
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