The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) engages in team-based advocacy around policy and practice changes that promote robust primary care to achieve the quadruple aim. Our policy strategy is focused on increased investment in primary care through alternative payment models that enable PCMHs and other types of advanced primary care to provide integrated, higher-value care that connects to the community.
Evidence demonstrates – and our Executive Members and Supporters believe – that comprehensive primary care is a high-value intervention that transforms our health care system. We work to empower patients through increased access to advanced primary care, and we support clinicians by encouraging team-based care and by empowering them to deliver the care that patients need and desire. While we engage in a variety of issues, PCPCC’s current policy focus is on allocating the resources needed to achieve advanced primary care and ensuring patient access to such care. More specifically:
Slides and Recap of PCPCC's Nov 9, 2018 Workshop on Primary Care Investment
In addition to these two advocacy-related focus areas, PCPCC will continue to convene thought leaders, develop programming, and educate in areas core to its work of strengthening advanced primary care models, including practice-level behavioral health integration, team-based and collaborative care, and patient and family engagement.
Learn more about these efforts as they develop at www.pcpcc.org or reach out the Chris Adamec, Director of Policy at [email protected].
PCPCC and several other leading organizations responded to the Geographic Population-Based Payment proposal from CMS. The letter expressed support for the idea, but and encouraged CMS to consider the potential for impact on both provider competition and existing alternative payment models.
PCPCC endorsed the “Community Statement on Medicare Coverage for Medically Necessary Oral and Dental Health Therapies,” recognizing the importance of primary care and oral health integration and need for Medicare coverage of evidence-based oral health interventions.
PCPCC applauded Colorado Governor Jared Polis for signing HB 19-1233, Investments in Primary Care to Reduce Health Costs which establishes a primary care payment reform collaborative, requires the commissioner of insurance to establish affordability standards for premiums with targets for investments in primary care and requires carriers who offer health benefit plans to state employees to set targets for investment in primary care.
PCPCC applauded Vermont Governor Phil Scott for signing into law S.53, now Act 17 of 2019. The law will determine the proportion of health care spending allocated to primary care and conduct an analysis of different methods for increasing primary care investment. https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2020/S.53
PCPCC’s Primary Care Innovations and PCMH Map tracks a diverse range of PCMH and enhanced primary care programs nationwide.
Every year PCPCC releases Annual Review of the Evidence publications that summarize program outcomes for advanced primary care and PCMH initiatives taking place nationwide.
PCPCC's State Legislation Database tracks state government activity and legislation that specifically supports PCMH and other innovative primary care delivery models.
