CMS added two care management codes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule to better support primary care practices, but a study from Harvard University suggests that the codes may not be working as...
Primary care practices are facing significant financial challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving 20 percent of practices without the resources they need to remain open beyond the next...
Providers across the care continuum have been reporting significant personal protective equipment (PEE) shortages, but a new survey shows that primary care practices are being hit hard by supply chain...
A study of the Veterans Health Administration’s patient-centered medical home (PCMH) implementation found no association between progress with the alternative care delivery model and high-cost...
Patients receiving primary care outside of their defined accountable care organization (ACO) network drive up costs for ACOs, a recent study from Portland State University said.
The Medicare Shared...
Primary care is at the heart of the care delivery system. Over three-quarters of the general population only require primary care services in a given year.
Yet primary care rates have been declining...
Despite a growing healthcare provider shortage, physician workforce demand has grown year-over-year over the past three years, according to a recent study conducted by Doximity.
The company’s...
Late last week, CMS started to accept applications for two new alternative payment models focusing on kidney and primary care, with the latter now facing a delayed implementation.
Both the Kidney Care...
The medical assistant-only model for primary care staffing may be the most cost-effective for practices relying on fee-for-service revenue, but the model will not be able to support value-based care...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) that provided between 40 and 45 percent of office visits through specialists had significantly lower costs compared to ACOs with the lowest and highest specialty...
Hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare organizations increased their demand for medical specialists from 2018 to 2019 despite the industry-wide push for more primary care, according to Merritt...
Healthcare revenue growth pushed past cost containment as the greatest priority for C-suite executives in 2019, according to the results of a new survey.
In the Advisory Board’s Annual Health...
CMS’ request for information on a new direct contracting model presents a unique opportunity for financial risk in healthcare, but the “lack of detail makes it difficult for providers to...
Risheet Patel, MD, was growing frustrated with how his practice had to deliver care and operate under a local hospital network entrenched in fee-for-service until he implemented direct primary...
The Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) did not affect total Medicare spending, and the value-based reimbursement program for primary care practices had little impact on service use and care...
On April 22, 2019, HHS unveiled the Primary Cares Initiative, a program that aims to reduce administrative burdens and enable primary care providers to focus more time on patients while decreasing...
Provider groups and healthcare executives are on board with Medicare’s new Primary Cares Initiative, which will shift primary care from fee-for-service to at-risk value-based reimbursement models...
HHS recently announced that CMS will launch the Primary Cares Initiative in 2020, which will give about one in four primary care providers the opportunity to receive value-based reimbursement and...
Healthcare industry leaders are emphasizing the benefits of primary care, but a surprisingly low percentage of Medicare spending goes to providing primary care services, a new RAND Corporation study...
Supporting primary care will bring value-based care results, asserts Humana’s Chief Medical Officer Roy Beveridge, MD.
Value-based arrangements between providers and payers have the lofty, yet...