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Various payment innovations have been testing ways to support primary care innovation and PCMH for many years. Depending on the region and the provider arrangement (e.g., a solo or small practice, an Independent Practice Association or Accountable Care Organization (ACO), or an employed provider as part of a health system), some practices that were once paid fee-for-service only, are now receiving additional per member per month payments (PMPM). Others are receiving payment incentives tied to performance metrics that measure quality, cost, or patient engagement. Medicare has been piloting various types of payment reform — ranging from pay-for-reporting to bundled payment — but the scale and spread of delivery models that tie payment to quality for all Medicare benefi ciaries is more recent.
As part of the Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is spearheading one of the most aggressive efforts in recent history to address delivery system reform. Recent passage of MACRA can help bring these efforts to scale across the entire Medicare program, and subsequently impact the broader commercial marketplace.
Because fee-for-service does not reimburse for key PCMH features — such as facilitating information sharing and care coordination with sub-specialists and hospitals, managing web-portals and personal health records, email communication and telephone visits, developing connections to community-based organizations, and integrating behavioral health — it often fails to compensate for the complete scope of services offered by a PCMH. Smaller practices with little reserve capacity are especially challenged in offering PCMH-level care without adequate financial support.
Numerous alternative payment models (APMs) are poised to support PCMH implementation and sustainability. Significant experimentation and testing of alternative payment arrangements is well underway, ranging from accountable care, to episode-based payment initiatives, to up-front payments that support primary care practice transformation, to initiatives that focus on specific populations, such as Medicaid, CHIP, or individuals dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare.
For more information, please access our 2014-2015 PCMH evidence report.
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PCPCC Leadership Responds to Latest Medical Home "Systematic Review" | December 3, 2012 | |
Disinvesting In Primary Care? | March 14, 2018 | |
Leveraging PCMH Evidence to Make the Case for Greater Investment in Primary Care | March 31, 2018 | |
PCPCC Supports SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act | February 12, 2014 | |
Call to Action: Urge Congress to Support Medicare Payment Reform | February 20, 2014 | |
Medical Home Concept Still a Work in Progress, Panelists Say | Congressional Quarterly | May 3, 2013 |
CMS issues MACRA fact sheet for small practices: 3 key takeaways | Becker's Hospital Review | May 13, 2016 |
Is the Payment Gap Between Specialists and PCPs Diminishing? | Becker's Hospital Review | November 22, 2016 |
ACO and Patient-Centered Medical Homes:How One Organization Is Diving Into Both Models | Becker's Hospital Review | September 26, 2012 |
WellCare Health Plans to Incentivize PCMH Model | Becker's Hospital Review | May 15, 2013 |