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News Article
October 2016
As planning for Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) intensifies, the Milbank Memorial Fund’s Multi-State Collaborative (MC) is evolving to meet the… More
August 2016
On August 1, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the selection of 14 regions around the country that will be the sites of… More
June 2016
In May, CMS’s Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (the Innovation Center) held its annual Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative… More
Blog Post
April 2016 Christopher F. Koller,
My e-mail inbox is full of innovations—solicitations for health care meetings, most offering “unique opportunities” to hear from “national leaders,” all of whom are busy innovating. Much of the conference fodder focuses on payment reform. More
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
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
