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September 14, 2022
On September 8, 2022, PCC joined a letter of support to Congressional leadership, alongside 90+ local, state and national organizations, urging members of Congress to pass H.R. 8151/S. 3479, the Building a Sustainable Workforce for Healthy...
September 7, 2022
PCC and its Better Health – NOW campaign plan to recommend a primary care hybrid payment option in its forthcoming comments on the Medicare Part B payment rule. The Campaign’s comments urge CMS to issue a request for information on hybrid...
September 7, 2022
PCC and the Better Health – NOW Campaign support key provisions of the Telemental Health Access Act discussion draft
Telehealth technologies have the potential to contribute to safe, high-quality primary care particularly if utilized in...
September 7, 2022
PCC supports the Helping MOMS Act, as an important step to confronting the maternal mortality crisis.
PCC supports H.R. 3345 as an important step to confronting the maternal mortality crisis. It would:
• Extend Medicaid postpartum...
September 6, 2022
On September 5, PCC and Better Health-NOW responded to CMS’ latest physician payment rule with a call for big policy change to strengthen primary care. The letter praised constructive CMS proposals to strengthen behavioral health...
September 6, 2022
Medicare Advantage (MA) Is growing part of Medicare and influencing new primary care models. In a August 31st response to a recent CMS Request for Information , PCC’s Better Health-NOW Campaign called for policy changes that reform both...
August 25, 2022
Chris Crowe, MD
Dr. Christopher Crowe is a primary care physician and co-founder of Catalyst Health Network (CHN), a clinically integrated network with over 1,000 primary care providers caring for more than 1 million patients across...
August 2, 2022
On August 1st, the Primary Care Collaborative's Better Health - NOW Campaign submitted consensus recommendations to shape a forthcoming federal Action Plan to Strengthen Primary Health Care - now under development by the Office of...
July 21, 2022
On July 1st CMS released several constructive new proposals in its annual Medicare Part B payment Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Provisions include
New flexibilities to support behavioral health integration in primary care;
Advanced...
July 17, 2022 | Primary Care Collaborative
Chris Crowe, MD
Dr. Christopher Crowe is a primary care physician and co-founder of Catalyst Health Network (CHN), a clinically integrated network with over 1,000 primary care providers caring for more than 1 million patients across...
July 13, 2022
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) is coordinating development of an initial Health and Human Services (HHS) Action Plan to Strengthen Primary Health Care. OASH seeks input from members of the public via a Request for...
July 13, 2022
Nineteen states have taken steps to measure primary care spending in the state – a key step to strengthening primary care.
Since 2018, PCC has served as a backbone organization for burgeoning movement to measure primary care spending and...
July 13, 2022
Telehealth technologies have the potential to contribute to safe, high-quality primary care particularly if utilized in coordination with an individual’s medical home. PCC and the Better Health – NOW Campaign support key provisions of the...
July 8, 2022
Approximately 700 women die annually in the United States because of pregnancy or its complications and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 60 percent of pregnancy related deaths are considered...
May 9, 2022 | Primary Care Collaborative
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 was a major disruption to many industries and businesses, including primary care. Primary care practices saw most patients in person before the pandemic, but the sudden shutdowns as a global...
May 9, 2022 | Real Clear Policy
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the tremendous health inequities coursing through America. While these disparities may be new to some, they are not new to the communities long affected by them. Medical care isn’t a one-size-fits-all...
May 6, 2022
"We know that health systems that are oriented toward primary care function better... having access to a primary care provider means you'll be focused on [wellness]... You are concerned with your health on an everyday basis, not just when...
May 3, 2022 | Primary Care Collaborative
A shorter version of this Q&A was published in the May 2022 Executive Member Update, the monthly enewsletter for PCC Executive Members. Below is the full article. Each month in PCC's newsletters, the PCC provides a short profile of an...
May 3, 2022 | Washington Monthly
The Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) meets three times a year to consider changes and additions to the “relative value” of more than 10,000 billing codes in the Medicare physician fee schedule. Each year, in a textbook example...
April 29, 2022
...the COVID-19 pandemic has shined much-needed light and advanced research on “whole-person health” by highlighting the correlation between behavioral health and overall wellness as many people with behavioral health challenges...
