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News Article
April 2016
This has been a big week for supporters of multi-payer alignment in health care and primary care transformation. On Monday, April 11, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announced that they will be implementing a new payment model—Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+). On Thursday, they released much delayed results from the evaluation of the second-year performance of the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative payment model, the precursor to CPC+. More
Publication
March 2016 Nancy McCall, Kristin Geonnotti,
There is ample international evidence that a high-quality, low-cost, and socially inclusive health care system must be built on a strong foundation of… More
Blog Post
February 2016 Christopher F. Koller,
Dear Health Care Payers: We gathered 25 of you—insurance company staff, Medicaid officials, and Medicare staff—earlier this month to compare… More
February 2016 Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH, Lisabeth Buelt, MPH, Kavita Patel, Len M. Nichols, PhD, MS, MA,
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) has released a new evidence report that looks at the effectiveness of the patient-centered… More
December 2015
The Milbank Memorial Fund’s Multi-State Collaborative (MC) held its annual meeting in Detroit in November. Forty participants from 15 states or… More
September 2015
The Milbank Memorial Fund’s Multi-State Collaborative submitted a letter via the Federal Register in late August in response to Medicare Program;… More
July 2015
There’s nothing better than sitting down and talking face-to-face with others involved in the same work as you. That’s what happened in June, when… More
June 2015
What fosters sustainable primary care transformation? What stands in the way? These questions are the focus of a Rocky Mountain Health Plans’ Issue… More
May 2015
Since 2009, the Fund has supported the Multi-State Collaborative (MC), a group of states committed to transforming the primary care delivery system… More
March 2015
In early March, the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) Initiative was the focus of several meetings held in Baltimore, Maryland. On March 3, CMS’s… More