In January 2023, legislation was filed in Massachusetts (Bill S.750) that aims to improve health and reduce health inequities by doubling primary care investment in the state. S.750 was referred to ...

Primary care providers face an increasingly challenging landscape that limits their time with patients. A report in Annals of Family Medicine concluded PCPs spend almost 6 hours daily dealing with ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is testing a new primary care model in eight states. The Making Care Primary (MCP) Model includes enhanced payments in three tracks. Participants, ...

Medicare is trying again with another accountable care organization (ACO) payment model aimed at primary care doctors, but reactions to the new model are mixed so far. The voluntary model, known as ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new diabetes care model could increase the percentage of patients who meet a composite quality indicator ...

This article presents a descriptive review of a team-based care transformation model in a large primary care network, including core staffing, process improvement, and extended care teams. Allegheny ...

The Permanent Primary Care Nursing Model provides for a comprehensive, coordinated approach to patient/resident care with the best prepared, i.e. the licensed nurse rather than the least prepared in ...

In April 2019, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation announced a new payment model, Primary Care First (PCF). The model, a successor to Comprehensive Primary Care Plus, is designed to ...

Integrated pediatric primary care — offering medical, behavioral, and social support — leads to more preventive visits and ...

Nurse-led surgeries could be the solution to the GP shortage, say nurses who have established one of the first set-ups of its kind in the UK. The Cuckoo Lane Practice in Ealing is owned and run by ...

ProvenHealth Navigator, Geisinger's version of advanced patient-centered medical homes, is associated with significant savings in total cost of care over time. Objectives: To estimate cost savings ...