IDG Contributor Network: New CMS initiative a pivotal point in primary care market
The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced a bold move to accelerate the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) program, news that I have been waiting on for a long time.
To provide a bit of background, CPC is a practice and payment model that rewards primary care physicians -- through an additional fixed monthly payment -- for taking care of patients in a proactive way instead of waiting for patients to show up at their clinics or hospitals. CMS initially rolled out CPC as a limited experiment through its innovation center.
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