Thanks to our advocacy efforts and collaboration with the Primary Care Development Corporation, the NYS Department of Health has announced that they will delay the rate reductions for Patient-Centered Medical Home recognition under the 2011 NCQA standards until January 2016 instead of April 1, 2015, as previously proposed. Payments for PCMH 2014 standards will be increased as of January 2016.
The delay in rate reductions for PCMH 2011 will give FQHCs the extra time necessary to achieve the 2014 standards and will ensure that health centers are able to continue providing high quality community-based primary care services.
More detailed information on the new PCMH rates, to be implemented in January 2016, is available here.