Doctors, payers may dislike changes to primary-care model

A tweak in the way some providers are reimbursed under a new primary-care payment model could deter providers from joining the Medicare initiative.

The CMS is looking to expand its ambitious primary-care model known as Comprehensive Primary Care Plus. But there hasn't been as much interest in the pilot as anticipated, and now the agency wants to pay incentives only to some participating providers and not others...