CMS Primary Care Model Provides Value-Based Path for Practices

CMS will test a new primary care model in eight states with the hopes of improving patient care and increasing value-based opportunities for primary care organizations.

The Making Care Primary (MCP) model aims to enhance care management and care coordination, provide primary care physicians with tools to form partnerships with healthcare specialists, and utilize community-based resources to address patient health needs and social determinants of health.

Additionally, the model seeks to provide patients with integrated, person-centered, accountable primary care and improve care quality while reducing spending. The model offers a pathway for small, independent, rural, and safety-net primary care organizations to enter value-based care arrangements.

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