Early results show WellPoint's patient-centered medical home pilots have met some goals for costs, utilization, and quality.

Primary care must be reengineered to improve outcomes and affordability. To achieve those goals, WellPoint invested in ten patient-centered medical home pilots that encourage care coordination, preventive care, and shared decision making. Two of the three pilots described in this article-in Colorado and New Hampshire-layer incentive payments for care coordination and quality improvement on top of a traditional fee-for-service payment.