Fact Sheet: Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its request for applications for the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative on September 28, 2011. This initiative from the CMS Innovation Center will help primary care practices deliver higher quality, better coordinated, and more patient-centered care. Made possible by the Affordable Care Act, this collaboration is modeled after the innovative practices developed by large employers and others in the private sector. It will invest in primary care practices throughout various local communities, helping small businesses, patients and taxpayers use their health care dollars more wisely.