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Medical Home

PROLOGUE

The Medical Home

In policy circles, this idealized vision of health care seems to be all the rage at the moment. But just like "managed care"—yes, it’s hard to believe, but this too was once an idealized vision—it’s hard to pin down exactly what "medical home" means. Who goes to a medical home, and what’s the exact address? Who practices there? What happens there, and who pays?

As with most things, it turns out that what’s old is actually new again. Robert Berenson and colleagues write that the American Academy of Pediatrics introduced the phrase in the 1960s, describing a way to improve . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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