Helpful Literature

Welcome to the Helpful Literature section. The goal of this section is to provide valuable tools, forms, and other resources.

General Medical Home Articles

• Medical Home Policy Statement AAP
• Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home March 2007

Coding to Support Medical Home

Appropriate coding for services is essential to assuring fiscal solvency of comprehensive medical homes. However, many providers lack knowledge of codes used in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of more severe, time intensive disease processes. Time based coding, care coordination coding, and coding for care plan oversight allow physicians to spend adequate time proactively managing complex disease processes without endangering practice revenue or rushing through family education.

The TNAAP Complex Care Coordination Fact Sheet introduces care coordination and care plan oversight codes that help physicians bill appropriately for time spent in managing severe or chronic disease. The TNAAP Time Based Coding Fact Sheet introduces thresholds for time based coding and extended service codes. Other more comprehensive resources expound upon a full range of codes than can be applied across medical disciplines. TNAAP also provides a broad range of coding education modules and services, including Coding to Support Medical Home, chart audits, and billing audits. TNAAP also provides extended provider support in ICD-10.

• Implementing Medical Home for CYSHSN (pp 19-23)
• AAP Coding Fact Sheet

Medical Home Impact on Cost and Outcome

• Access to Care & Insurance Peds 2004
• Evaluation of Medical Home Peds 2004
• Evidence Outcomes in PCMH 2010
• Improved Outcomes with MH Implementation Peds 2009
• Improving Chronic Illness Care
• Medical Home Costs Peds 2011
• Health Care Expenditures CYSHCN Peds 2011

Medical Home Implementation

• Guidelines for MH Implementation
• Initial Lessons from the First National Demonstration Project