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Milbank Memorial Fund: The Health of US Primary Care: A Baseline Scorecard Tracking Support for High-Quality Primary Care (February 2023)
Highlights the need to invest more in our nation’s primary care.
Wakely: Performance Year 2021 Results (October 2022)
More primary care physicians and more evaluation and management visits with primary care physicians lead to greater cost savings for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) within the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP).
JAMA Internal Medicine: Effect of community health worker support on clinical outcomes of low-income patients across primary care facilities: a randomized clinical trial (December 2018)
Patients who received tailored support from a community health worker were much more likely to rank the primary care they were receiving at the highest quality level than those who did not receive such support.
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PCC Webinars
January 2022: Primary Care Payment Reform: Foundational Concepts and Approaches
Dr. Bob Berenson reviews primary care payment concepts and models, followed by a discussion among primary care innovators and leaders of different payment approaches and design issues in crafting hybrid models using both fee schedule and capitation components.
March 2022: Roundtable on the Importance of Independent Primary Care Practices
A roundtable discussion among leading primary care advocates addressed the important characteristics of independent practices and promising strategies to sustain them.
April 2022: Matching Patients to Primary Care to Drive Better Health
An expert panel discusses proven strategies for increasing patient matching to primary care practices and how purchasers and payers can increase the share of enrollees with a usual source of care.
Members of Primary Care Collaborative represent primary care clinicians, practices and professional societies, patient and consumer advocates, health equity and community advocates, health plans, and other stakeholders who want to improve the health of our communities through primary care.
Better Health – Now is comprised of PCC Executive Members and additional campaign supporters. PCC is the only national multi-stakeholder organization focused on whole-person primary care. PCC operates as a convener and leader in the primary care community to bring together its current members and other key healthcare and patient-oriented stakeholders to push for payment reforms in primary care with a unified voice.
Watch the launch webinar Join Better Health – NOWThe Shared Principles of Primary Care
More than 350 diverse organizations support these shared principles of primary care , which guide PCC and the work of Better Health – Now.
