Will medical homes invent a new health industry?

There’s a lot of talk about the patient centered medical home.

While some are labeling it a savior for primary care medicine, earlier this week I outline somed obstacles to the idea becoming a reality.

Family physician Doug Farrago however, takes a more cynical view. Like the ICD-based coding system, which has spawned an entire industry of medical coders, he thinks that the medical home will do nothing more than provide entrepreneurs an opportunity to start “a business that claims to certify whether your office is a ‘medical home’ or not.”

He’s skeptical of the idea, calling it another bureaucratic layer in an already bloated system.