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Late last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that 19 new accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) will participate in a new Advance Investment Payment (AIP)...
Research has consistently shown that high-quality, whole-person primary can improve health outcomes and lower costs. Yet, less that 5 percent of all health care dollars being spent on primary care and fewer and fewer patients have a usual...
About the Champion Dr. Kyu (“Q”) Rhee, MD, MPP, joined NACHC in 2023 to lead efforts to advance health equity and support the mission of community health centers, which provide high-quality, affordable, transdisciplinary primary care...
With a December 14 letter, the Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) is applauding House Ways and Means Committee leaders for their efforts to date to develop solutions for healthcare access in rural and underserved locales and offering its own...
Primary Care Collaborative Presents Annual Awards for Excellence  The Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) announced today the recipients of its four annual awards for 2023. The awards recognize individuals and organizations that exemplify...
U.S. primary care is failing patients due to a clinician shortage and chronic underinvestment, leaving a growing share of Americans unable to establish a regular primary care relationship. A new report from the Primary Care Collaborative (...
On July 26th, with the full support of PCC and its Better Health – NOW Campaign, U.S. Representatives Michelle Steel (R-CA), Dan Kildee (D-MI), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), August Pfluger (R-TX), and Susie Lee (D-NV)...
In comments submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on September 11th, the Primary Care Collaborative’s Better Health – NOW Campaign backed several provisions of Medicare’s proposed 2024 Part B Physician Fee...
On September 18th, CMS finalized a rule streamlining procedures and making it easier for recipients of Supplemental Security Income or Medicare Part D’s Low-Income Subsidy to access help with Medicare Part A and B premiums and cost-sharing...
About the Champion Tawandaa Austin, MHS, CCHW is the Lead Community Health Worker and Product Specialist at IMPaCT at the Penn Center for Community Health Workers. She is also the Founder and CEO of Moms Like Me, a nonprofit aimed at...
  If you or someone you love depends on Medicare, you know managing that person’s health isn’t easy. Even on a good day, you may find yourself navigating multiple chronic health needs while simultaneously addressing the mental, behavioral...
  “Twenty-seven diverse organizations have urged CMS to leverage the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) to transform how and how much the United States invests in primary care. Yesterday’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)...
Primary care advocates in Pennsylvania are taking the first steps down the road to measuring and enhancing investment in primary care with a new state bill, Senate Bill 809, introduced on June 23, 2023. Sponsored by Senator Judith Schwank...
The Primary Care Collaborative’s Better Health – NOW Campaign members offered strong support for S. 1378 the Connecting Our Medical Providers with Links to Expand Tailored and Effective (COMPLETE) Care Act in a July 10th letter addressed...
The new CMS Innovation Center primary care strategy envisions multiple pathways to strengthen primary care financing, including a potential hybrid primary care payment option – championed by Better Health - NOW.  CMS’ strategy clearly...
The new Medicaid and CHIP access standards earned a note of appreciation from the Primary Care Collaborative and its Better Health – NOW Campaign partners in a July 3rd letter to Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) Director Dan...
About the Champion Kevin Grumbach, MD is Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He also practices family medicine at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the Lakeshore...
Something’s percolating at CMS – the agency that operates Medicaid and CHIP – with potential to connect more people to primary care and advance health equity. In our complex health system, primary care knits together fragmented and...
On Friday evening, June 9th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center released a new primary care strategy envisioning multiple pathways to strengthen primary care financing, including a hybrid primary care payment...
  Statement by Primary Care Collaborative's Ann Greiner, President/CEO, Regarding the Making Care Primary Model Announcement by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center (CMMI) “Today’s new CMS announcement is a...

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