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March 26, 2020 | Primary Care Collaborative
The coronavirus is having a major impact on the U.S. health care system—including primary care. To track the impact of the coronavirus and what is needed to respond, the Primary Care Collaborative partnering with the Larry A. Green Center...
March 26, 2020 | Families USA
The PCC recently signed on to Families USA's letter to Congress, urging them to pass legislation that provides aid allowing fiscal assistance for the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 24, 2020 | Fierce Healthcare
Health IT leaders at hospitals and health systems are fast-tracking major technology projects—some in a matter of days.
As coronavirus cases rapidly increase in the U.S., healthcare chief information officers (CIOs) and IT executives are...
March 20, 2020 | PCPCC Press Release
PCC and the Larry Green Center partnered to release a real-time survey of clinicians to get a glimpse of the effect of COVID-19 on their practices.
March 19, 2020 | Primary Care Collaborative
The coronavirus is rapidly impacting the U.S. health care system—including primary care. To track its impact and what’s needed to respond, the Primary Care Collaborative has partnered with the Larry A. Green Center, which is conducting a...
March 9, 2020 | Primary Care Collaborative
PCC is excited to sign on to the American Academy of Pediatrics's letter of support for the Kid's Access to Primary Care Act of 2020. Ensuring that children have consistent access to quality care is essential. The Act would bring Medicaid...
March 5, 2020 | Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness
The PCC is excited to sign on to the a letter supporting Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) and their efforts to reintroduce the Protecting Jessica Grubb's Legacy Act. This bipartisan legislation will modernize...
February 25, 2020 | Health Affairs Blog
It is well understood that stress is a significant predictor of poor mental and physical health and health-harming behaviors, such as alcohol and substance use, poor sleep, and so forth. The unequal distribution of stressors is believed to...
February 24, 2020 | Health Affairs Blog
As health care payment models become more value-based, health care systems are increasingly interested in approaches that address both medical needs and social determinants of health.
This isn’t surprising. Services delivered in the...
February 18, 2020 | Dallas Morning News
The United States spends roughly twice as much on health as other developed countries, over $10,000 per person in 2017. But compared with its peers, the U.S. spends less than half as much on primary care, and maybe that’s the problem....
February 10, 2020 | RevCycle Intelligence
Primary care is at the heart of the care delivery system. Over three-quarters of the general population only require primary care services in a given year.
Yet primary care rates have been declining in recent years.
Such a contrast...
February 10, 2020 | Medical Economics
Visits to primary care doctors have been falling for decades in the U.S., and rising out-of-pocket costs are the main, although not the only, reason why.
That is the conclusion of two recent studies of trends in visits to primary care...
February 6, 2020 | Patient Engagement HIT
The United States ranks lower in many healthcare measures than other similarly developed nations, an issue that can largely be credited to poor access to primary or preventive care, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund....
February 6, 2020 | The Milbank Memorial Fund
Good news, kind of. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that the United States reversed a three-year decline in life expectancy in 2018, thanks to gains made in combating opioid deaths and to improved...
February 6, 2020 | The Milbank Memorial Fund
Good news, kind of. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that the United States reversed a three-year decline in life expectancy in 2018, thanks to gains made in combating opioid deaths and to improved...
February 3, 2020 | NPR
Efforts across the U.S. in recent years to encourage medical students, nurse practitioners and others to go into primary care, especially in underserved areas, are built on a consensus in research: Primary care is good for patients.
"It's...
February 3, 2020 | Modern Healthcare
The nurse practitioner workforce more than doubled over a seven-year span as the healthcare industry ramps up primary care, according to new research.
The number of NPs grew at an unprecedented rate across major professions from around 91...
January 30, 2020 | Primary Care Collaborative
January 30, 2020 (WASHINGTON, DC) – The Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) today announced the appointment of Darilyn Moyer, MD, FACP; Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, American College of Physicians (ACP), as Chair of...
January 30, 2020 | The Hill
Despite having fewer doctors, U.S. health spending totals more than $10,000 per person per year, mainly due to private insurance costs (premiums and employer-sponsored coverage) the report found. At $4,092 per capita, American private...
January 28, 2020 | The Boston Globe
At the heart of his biggest health care initiative as governor, Charlie Baker is proposing a fundamental shift in how Massachusetts delivers care.
Baker has called for new mandates to increase the amount of money health care providers and...
