Dear Colleagues and Friends,

The last many months on the federal health policy front have certainly been uncertain. Here at the PCPCC, we have been tracking the House and Senate legislative proposals and following regulations to understand their impact on primary care. This week we issued a PCPCC statement identifying concerns about provisions in the proposed Senate legislation, reaffirmed that primary care should be accessible, high quality and affordable for all, and expressed our desire to work with Congress to craft legislation that would ensure these outcomes.

Meanwhile, we are also gearing up to release our annual Evidence Report at a briefing on Capitol Hill in the Cannon Building, Room 122 on July 10. This report (the sixth in a series) analyzes studies that have evaluated patient-centered medical homes and other advanced primary care efforts in order to show their impact on cost, quality, and utilization. We hope that you can join us at the briefing or attend our webinar scheduled for August 16. I want to personally thank the researchers at the Robert Graham Center for their work on the report, for the financial support of the Milbank Memorial Fund, and the BCBS Association for their partnership in disseminating the report to Capitol Hill.  

You can also join the effort to shape the future of primary care by signing on to the Shared Principles of Primary Care. These principles, crafted by 300 diverse stakeholders, are designed to help all of us achieve the goals of better health, better care, lower costs, and greater joy for clinicians while providing high-quality and patient-centered primary care.

We also hope you are planning to attend our upcoming conference, which will be organized around these Shared Principles and will offer attendees the chance to learn from innovators in the field who are already putting these principles into action.





Ann Greiner, MCP
President & CEO