Primary care played a starring role in a bipartisan April 11th Senate Finance Committee hearing, Bolstering Chronic Care through Medicare Physician Payment, led by Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Ranking Member MIke Crapo (R-ID).
With PCC members and team in attendance, Chairman Wyden responded directly to a recommendation from hearing witness Amol Navathe, MD, PhD that Congress create a path to scaling hybrid primary care payment, saying, “I like that idea very much.” Dr. Navathe is a physician and Professor at the Unversity of Pennsylvania.
The PCC sent a letter to the chair and ranking member of the U.S. Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee and the chair and ranking member of the U.S. House of Representatives Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee on April 26 requesting dedicated funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Center for Primary Care Research in fiscal year 2022.
As the leading coalition dedicated to advancing the medical home, the PatientCentered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) offers the following response to the recent article “The Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Systematic Review” published in the November 27th issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. In it the authors conclude that: “current evidence is insufficient to determine [the medical home's] effects on clinical and most economic outcomes.
