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GA SR1538
Resolution
Status
Introduced
4/27/2010
Primary Sponsor
Greg Goggans
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AI Summary
- Urges the Georgia Department of Community Health to establish patient centered medical home pilot projects through care management organizations for the Medicaid population and through the State Health Benefit Health Insurance Plans
- Calls for medical homes to provide accessible, continuous, and coordinated patient centered care focused on preventive services and healthy lifestyles, with care responsive to individual patient preferences and needs
- Recommends participating physicians be board certified, use evidence based medicine, clinical decision support tools, and health information technology, while developing health assessment tools and providing secure patient access to personal health information
- Specifies that personal physicians should be eligible for case management fees and incentive payments for providing medical home services, and that specialists or subspecialists should participate for patients with chronic or prolonged conditions
- Requires evaluation of pilot projects based on patient and provider satisfaction, clinical outcomes, program costs and savings, care coordination effectiveness, and innovation in payment methodologies
Legislative Description
Georgia Department of Community Health; urged to require patient centered medical home pilot projects
Last Action
Senate Read and Referred
4/27/2010
Committee Referrals
Health and Human Services4/27/2010
Full Bill Text
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