Arkansas Comprehensive Primary Care Plus

In 2016, Arkansas was one of 14 regions selected through a competitive process to participate in round one of the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) initiative launched by CMS. CPC+ is an advanced five-year initiative designed to strengthen primary care delivery, promote better health outcomes, and control overall health care costs.  The initiative developed by CMS  and supported by Arkansas’s largest public and private payers transitions Medicare fee-for-service to value based alternative payment models in collaboration with Medicaid. In Arkansas, the original CPC program bought an estimated $50 million from 2012 to 2016 to support 69 practices. This public-private partnership gives practices additional financial resources and flexibility to make investments, improve quality of life, and reduce the number of unnecessary services patients receive.