PCC webinar: Roundtable on the Importance of Independent Primary Care Practices

In a period of dynamic change in the organization and ownership of primary care practices, is it important to ensure that independent practice models remain in the care-delivery ecosystem? The committee that authored the 2021 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care, recognized a continued role for independent primary care practices. The committee recommended that primary care “[p]ayment should be adequate to support high-quality, independent primary care practices and flexible enough to support an emerging array of new delivery models.” This roundtable discussion among leading proponents, practitioners and partners of independent primary care addressed the important characteristics of independent practices and promising strategies to sustain them.

This webinar was made possible with support from The Commonwealth Fund.

Panelists:

  • Elizabeth Mitchell, President and CEO, Purchaser Business Group on Health
  • L. Allen Dobson Jr., MD, Founder and Past President and CEO, Community Care of North Carolina
  • Sean Cavanaugh, Chief Policy Officer & Chief Commercial Officer, Aledade

Moderator: Ann Greiner, President and CEO, Primary Care Collaborative

Related resources

PCC's new campaign - Better Health - Now (online launch on March 29 announced by moderator Ann Greiner during the introduction of the webinar):

White Paper
Supporting and Promoting High-Performing Physician-Owned Private Practices: Voices from the Front Lines
The American Medical Association and Mathematica, October 22, 2021
Diane Rittenhouse, Tiffany Olszuk, Margaret Gerteis, Jan Genevro, Katie Hancock, Evelyn Li, Lindsey Carlasare, Carol Vargo, and Kathleen Blake

On the website of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Profiles of Primary Care
More than 1,500 primary care practices have participated in EvidenceNOW. They serve diverse communities in a variety of urban, rural, and suburban settings across America. Even though these small clinics face challenges such as limited staff and resources, they have big goals of providing the best possible care to all of their patients. Get to know a few of the EvidenceNOW clinics.
 

Ann Greiner, MCP

President & Chief Executive Officer, Primary Care Collaborative
Ann Greiner serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Primary Care Collaborative (PCC), where she is focused on defining and implementing an advocacy, research and education agenda that furthers comprehensive, team-based and patient-centered primary care.  read more

Elizabeth Mitchell

President & CEO, Purchaster Business Group on Health
As President and CEO of the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH), Mitchell advances the organization’s strategic focus areas of advanced primary care, functional markets and purchasing value. Mitchell leads PBGH in mobilizing purchasers, elevating the role and impact of primary care, and creating functional healthcare markets to support high-quality affordable care – achieving measurable impacts on outcomes and affordability including quality, patient-reported outcomes/satisfaction, and appropriateness. read more

L. Allen Dobson Jr., MD, FAAFP

Chairman of CCPN's Board of Managers, Community Care Physicians Network, LLC
Dr. Dobson is the chair of the Board of Managers of Community Care Physicians Network, LLC (CCPN), a clinically integrated network of more than 3,600 clinicians in more than 1,000 practices sites across North Carolina. CCPN is dedicated to providing support to independent primary care practices that will allow them to thrive in emerging payments systems such as value-based care. Dr. Dobson is a founder and past President and Chief Executive Officer of Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC). CCNC provides population management and primary care medical home services to 1.6 million North Carolinians. Nationally recognized for quality outcomes, patient and physician satisfaction and lowered costs, CCNC holds the Hearst Prize for Innovation in Population Health and Harvard’s Annie E. Casey award for Innovations in Government. read more

Sean Cavanaugh

Chief Policy Officer & Chief Commercial Officer, Aledade
Sean Cavanaugh is Aledade’s Chief Policy Officer and Chief Commercial Officer. Sean previously served as the Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He was responsible for overseeing the regulation and payment of Medicare fee-for-service providers, privately administered Medicare health plans, and the Medicare prescription drug program. Previously Sean was the Deputy Director for Programs and Policy in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, where he was responsible for overseeing the development and testing of new payment and service-delivery models, including ACOs and medical homes. Prior to that, Sean was Director of Health Care Finance at the United Hospital Fund. read more
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