Press Release
May 17, 2019
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) applauds Colorado Governor Jared Polis and Vermont Governor Phil Scott for signing into law legislation in their respective states that will enhance primary care services and payment...
April 23, 2019
“Primary care is a small slice of health spending overall, but it has a significant impact on downstream costs and quality.”
- Alex M. Azar II, Secretary of HHS
Washington, DC--April 23, 2019– The Patient-Centered...
March 26, 2019
March 26, 2019
The Honorable Seema Verma
Administrator
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
US Department of Health & Human Services
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201
Adam Boehler...
February 14, 2019 | EurekAlert!
JOURNAL: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
FUNDERS: National Institutes of Health, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation
While sleep questionnaires are commonly completed by children...
January 22, 2019 | NYU News, Publications and Facts
Good health literacy is associated with better adherence to blood pressure medications among Hispanic individuals with high blood pressure, finds a study by NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and Columbia University School of Nursing....
January 22, 2019 | NYU News, Publications and Facts
Good health literacy is associated with better adherence to blood pressure medications among Hispanic individuals with high blood pressure, finds a study by NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and Columbia University School of Nursing....
January 11, 2019
Washington, DC -- The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) applauds Delaware’s Primary Care Reform Collaborative (Collaborative) for its recommendations to invest more in primary care to meet the medical, behavioral, and...
December 19, 2018 | StonyBrook University News
October 2, 2018
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 2, 2018
CONTACT: Allison Gross, (202) 417-2075, agross@pcpcc.org
WASHINGTON, DC – Today the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) announced the recipients of its 2018 advanced primary...
August 29, 2018 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
For Immediate Release: CONTACT: Allison Gross; (202) 417-2075; agross@pcpcc.org
Washington, DC (August 29, 2018) - The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) applauds Delaware Governor John Carney Jr. for signing into law...
August 10, 2018 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
CMS administrator, Seema Verma, recently announced proposed rule changes impacting Accountable Care Organizations (ACO). In her announcement, Ms. Verma recognizes that physician-led ACOs achieve greater savings than other types of ACOs. In...
August 8, 2018 | PCPCC Press Release
CONTACT: Allison Gross, (202) 417-2075, agross@pcpcc.org
Public and private policymakers have spent more than a decade transforming care delivery and exploring alternative payment models to improve the quality of care. Two of the most...
July 30, 2018 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
PCPCC received $250,000 from the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award in June 2018. The award will fund a 17-month project entitled, Promoting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Dissemination. The project aims to build PCPCC’s...
July 26, 2018
PCPCC STATEMENT ON RISK ADJUSTMENT FUNDING
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) appreciates the announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that it will reissue, with additional explanation,...
July 19, 2018 | US Department of Veterans Affairs
WASHINGTON — Today the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and IBM Watson Health announced the extension of a public-private partnership to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to help interpret cancer data in the treatment of Veteran...
June 21, 2018 | Avalere
New research from Avalere finds that proposed 2019 exchange premiums for the most popular exchange plans (silver-level plans) are 15% higher, on average, compared to 2018 final premiums. If approved, average silver-level exchange plan...
June 21, 2018 | PCDC
This is an important new report from PCDC. It further proves that primary care is critical to creating healthy communities, ensuring health equity, and reducing health care costs!
May 31, 2018 | American Medical Association
CHICAGO – The American Medical Association (AMA) issued a new report today documenting how physician leadership is advancing the fight against the opioid epidemic.
The report, which is being released as the U.S. Department of Health and...
May 22, 2018 | AAFP News
“Americans will have access to essential primary care and preventive health services under the Primary Care Patient Protection Act of 2018, introduced this week by U.S. Representatives Brad Schneider (D-Illinois) and Elise Stefanik (R-New...
April 9, 2018 | PCPCC Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC – The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), a leading primary care advocacy organization, today announced that Bill Kramer, the Executive Director for National Health Policy at the Pacific Business Group on...
