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October 6, 2018
A report released in August gleaned characteristics of successful ACOs from 15 studies on the subject. One was having physicians in leadership roles who act as “clinical champions” and create a culture of shared commitment among clinicians...
October 5, 2018 | Harvard Health Policy Review
The need to rehabilitate American infrastructure such as roads, bridges, and water systems is well recognized. These services are used daily by millions and impact the economy, health, and commerce of America. Likewise, primary care needs...
October 4, 2018
Dr. Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, will receive the prestigious Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award. During her career, she has worked tirelessly to transform healthcare delivery through technology, medical education, and community...
October 3, 2018 | JAMA
Today, as in 1978, the global community grapples with providing basic, essential health care—especially for the most underserved among us, who are often at the margins of society and the center of health tragedies. In the United States,...
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...
October 2, 2018 | City & State New York
Between 2012 and 2016, visits to primary care doctors in the U.S. declined 18 percent, according to a 2016 study by the Health Care Cost Institute, while visits to specialists increased. Primary care provides benefits that visits to...
September 30, 2018 | Associated Press
KOKOMO, Indiana (AP) — Autoworkers in this blue-collar, central Indiana city have an eager helper waiting to pick up the bill at their next doctor visit.
Fiat Chrysler is offering free health care for most of its employees and their...
September 24, 2018 | The Milbank Memorial Fund
For the last eight years, the US health care system, led by Medicare, has been going to school, learning how to do comprehensive provider payment reform. The most important courses have focused on how to improve performance for entire...
September 24, 2018
PCPCC submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services supporting changes in the Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems that seek to align payment rates across settings, so that...
September 21, 2018
PCPCC is offering 25 scholarships to patient advocates. To be considered for a scholarship, please answer the 4 questions below and send your answers to Merilyn Francis (mfrancis@pcpcc.org) and Tanya Thabjan (tgthabjan@pcpcc.org). ...
September 19, 2018 | New England Journal of Medicine
After nearly a decade of experimentation with value-based payment (VBP), U.S. health care payers, providers, and purchasers are confronting uneven adoption of new care guidelines, modest early results, and stillunacceptable gaps in...
September 17, 2018 | National Academy of Medicine
Team-based health care has been linked to improved patient outcomes and may also be a means to improve clinician well-being [1]. The increasingly fragmented and complex health care landscape adds urgency to the need to foster effective...
September 13, 2018 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
PCPCC announced its participation in the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis with the launch of a new initiative, “ACT for Better Diagnosis.”
For more information and a list of participating organizations, visit www.BetterDiagnosis.org.
September 11, 2018 | Modern Healthcare
The Medicare Shared Savings Program generated $1.84 billion in savings over three years, which is nearly twice the savings that CMS data show, according to a new study commissioned by the National Association of ACOs.
The study, published...
September 10, 2018 | Health Affairs
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative also recently reported that NCQA PCMHs distinguish accountable care organizations (ACOs) that improve from those that do not. The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACOs with more NCQA...
September 10, 2018 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
Re: Medicare Program; Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2019; Medicare Shared Savings Program Requirements; Quality Payment Program; and Medicaid Promoting Interoperability...
September 9, 2018 | USA Today
Eighty-six percent of us medical graduates are in debt. I envision that it will be years before many graduates, especially recent ones with increasingly higher levels of debt, will have sufficient funds or desire to contribute while still...
September 7, 2018 | ACP Advocate
What's the best way forward for Accountable Care Organizations? Evidence shows they should prioritize primary care and advanced models like the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), declares a new report from the Patient-Centered Primary...
September 6, 2018 | Healthcare Dive
The large savings for physician-led ACOs is a departure from a 2017 evaluation of the MSSP program. That report showed just one-third of ACOs in the program achieved savings, though they outperformed their FFS counterparts on most quality...
September 4, 2018 | Modern Healthcare
Accountable Care Organizations that were launched in part through loans from the CMS saved Medicare $82 million after just one year of operations, according to a federal report released Friday. The CMS spent just $58 million in loans to...
