AHRQ guidance: Forget about proving Medical Home effectiveness with small pilot studies attempting to measure all-patient cost savings
The vast majority of already-published and currently-underway studies of the effectiveness of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care are pilot studies with fewer than 50 PCMH practices. Most of these studies report or intend to report reductions in hospitalization rates and savings across the entire population of patients served by the PCMH