The Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) 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, PCC’s current policy focus is on allocating the resources needed to achieve advanced primary care and ensuring patient access to such care.  More specifically: 

PCC has long led the effort to transform primary care into a more integrated, team-based model – captured through the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). While these models are becoming widely adopted, they rarely have enough resources nor the flexibility in payment structure to meet the goals laid out by the Shared Principles of Primary Care. As shown in PCC’s Primary Care Innovations Map, there are exciting demonstrations, plans, and regions that are exceptions to this rule, but clinicians, on a national level, continue to struggle to realize the vision for primary care embodied in the Shared Principles.

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