CMS Innovation Center Strengthening Equitable Access to Advanced Primary Care Listening Session

 

CMS Innovation Center Strengthening Equitable Access to Advanced Primary Care Listening Session The CMS Innovation Center hosted a listening session on Advanced Primary Care on Tuesday, April 26th with 8 guest panelists, representing patient advocacy groups and provider groups, as well as foundation and research experts. The CMS Innovation Center noted the following themes that it will take into consideration for future planning: CMS may consider further opportunities to support primary care practices, particularly smaller and/or under-resourced, in their transition to value-based care by reducing administrative and technical burden and investing in data infrastructure. CMS may consider providing additional support for integration of team-based care delivery, to reflect the vital role of community health workers, specialists, and other support staff in meeting community medical and social needs. CMS may consider development of more meaningful and accurate ways to measure primary care practice performance and population health, focusing less on individual disease and more on social risk factors and practice norms. Event materials, including the transcript and slides used, have been posted on the CMS Innovation Center Strategic Direction webpage. If you have any additional comments or questions on the topic, please submit them to the CMMIStrategy@cms.hhs.gov mailbox using the subject line “ADVANCED PRIMARY CARE LISTENING SESSION.” We appreciate your input as it is being used to inform our work moving forward. For more information about the CMS Innovation Center’s new strategy and the future of value-based care: Visit the CMS Innovation Center Strategic Direction webpage, which includes materials from past events and more Read the CMS Innovation Center Strategy FAQs See the CMS Innovation Center Strategy Refresh At-a-Glance document Read the Center’s white paper: Driving Health System Transformation - A Strategy for the CMS Innovation Center’s Second Decade Visit the About the CMS Innovation Center webpage, for a video explaining how our models test new ways to provide better, more affordable care Follow us on Twitter And, look for details on future listening sessions, model updates, and more via the CMMI listserv.

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