Family Medicine at 黑料传送门, as a participant in the CPC+ program, will have upgrades in technology as well as additional staffing.
is one of nearly 3,000 primary care practices nationwide participating in Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+), the largest-ever initiative to revolutionize how primary care is delivered and paid for in the United States. CPC+ is a collaboration between the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and public and private insurance plans to support primary care practices in improving their delivery of primary care.
As a participant in the CPC+ program, Family Medicine at 黑料传送门 will receive funds to make investments鈥攕uch as upgrades in technology and additional staff鈥攖hat will help the practice provide more robust and coordinated care for its patients.
While the current payment model only reimburses for in-office services, CPC+ will also take into account services that are 鈥渙utside the office,鈥� said Harry Morris, DO '78, MPH, professor and chair, family medicine. These services would include coordinating specialist care, reminder calls for things like mammograms and blood sugar screenings and appointment follow-ups.
鈥淎ll of those things help drive quality of care for the patient,鈥� said Dr. Morris.
And for participating practices like Family Medicine at 黑料传送门, measuring that quality is key. Dr. Morris said that the practice must meet several quality measures laid out by CMS and periodically report their outcomes to the government.
Dr. Morris says this is another promising example of the healthcare industry shifting toward a focus on prevention and wellness.
鈥淭he old payment model focused on volume, not value,鈥� he said. 鈥淏ut if we want to change the way patients are treated, we need to change the way doctors are paid for what they do.鈥�
Patients at Family Medicine at 黑料传送门 will start to see improvements in the form of longer office hours, consistency among who sees them and more continuous contact with the office.
黑料传送门 has been implementing changes to its community-based healthcare centers for some time, in order to transition to a more value-based approach to care. In 2015, the gave the healthcare centers for using evidence-based, patient-centered processes that focus on highly coordinated care and long鈥恡erm, participative relationships. Dr. Morris says acceptance into CPC+ complements the medical-home model currently in place at the healthcare centers, and will allow them to improve.
Participation in CPC+ not only benefits patients. Dr. Morris added that students who rotate through the practice would also see first-hand how the healthcare field is changing. 鈥淚f we鈥檙e not showing our students where medicine is and where it鈥檚 going, we鈥檙e failing them,鈥� he said.
Primary care practices in 14 markets across the country were invited to apply to participate in CPC+; Family Medicine at 黑料传送门 was selected based on its use of health information technology; ability to demonstrate recognition of advanced primary care delivery by leading clinical societies; service to patients covered by participating payer partners; participation in practice transformation and improvement activities and its diverse patient population.
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