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  • Maryland’s Primary Care Program Helps Practices Pivot During COVID-19

    News Article

    Maryland’s Primary Care Program Helps Practices Pivot During COVID-19

    June 2020 Sarah Klein Martha Hostetter

    When Maryland launched its advanced primary care program in 2019 to improve population health outcomes and reduce unnecessary hospital use, no one anticipated it would prove as useful as it has in helping practices adapt to COVID-19. More

  • Maryland’s Innovative Primary Care Program: Building a Foundation for Health and Well-Being

    Publication

    Maryland’s Innovative Primary Care Program: Building a Foundation for Health and Well-Being

    June 2020 Chad Perman Robert Patterson Howard Haft

    The Maryland Primary Care Program (MDPCP) aims to make strategic investments in primary care practices and build a resilient statewide infrastructure to prevent and manage chronic disease. More

  • Leadership in Primary Care Practice

    Blog Post

    Leadership in Primary Care Practice

    June 2020 Richard Shonk, MD, PhD

    A recent Milbank Quarterly study by Benjamin F. Crabtree and colleagues about leadership at the primary care practice level identified 11 attributes of leadership within successful primary care practices. In a companion Milbank blog, Richard Shonk, chief medical officer for The Health Collaborative in Cincinnati, Ohio, applies the leadership model proposed to Maslow’s theory of human motivation and his own experience working with primary care teams on practice transformation. More

  • What’s Next for Primary Care? Lessons from Hurricane Katrina for COVID-19

    Blog Post

    What’s Next for Primary Care? Lessons from Hurricane Katrina for COVID-19

    May 2020 Diane Rittenhouse

    Like New Orleans 15 years ago, the United States has an opportunity in the wake of disaster to prioritize health care services that most benefit population health. More

  • Reexamining Medicare Payment Reforms in Light of COVID-19

    News Article

    Reexamining Medicare Payment Reforms in Light of COVID-19

    May 2020

    Along with cost and quality, policymakers consider adding an “epidemic mitigation” standard to their evaluations of payment reform models, especially for primary care. More

  • News Article

    Commercial Insurers Can Strengthen Primary Care: A Q&A with Julie Schilz on Responding to COVID-19

    April 2020

    Primary care practices—many of which are independent small businesses—are in grave danger at a time when the country needs them most. The… More

  • Payer Actions Can Help Sustain Primary Care During and After COVID-19

    Blog Post

    Payer Actions Can Help Sustain Primary Care During and After COVID-19

    April 2020 Christopher F. Koller Anthony Shih

    The COVID-19 pandemic poses grave threats to our country’s fragile primary care system. In a new blog post co-published with the United Hospital Fund (UHF), Milbank Memorial Fund President Christopher F. Koller and UHF President Anthony Shih, MD, point out that commercial insurers in many places can do more to protect primary care’s viability. More

  • How Payment Reform Could Enable Primary Care to Respond to COVID-19

    Publication

    How Payment Reform Could Enable Primary Care to Respond to COVID-19

    April 2020 Stephanie B. Gold, MD Larry A. Green John M. Westfall, MD, MPH

    The authors make the case for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement risk-adjusted, prospective primary care payments now for all practices to meet better people’s needs—for the current COVID-19 crisis, for routine care, and for future crises yet unknown.  More

  • Primary Care First: Opportunities and Challenges for Multipayer Collaboration

    Blog Post

    Primary Care First: Opportunities and Challenges for Multipayer Collaboration

    December 2019 Lisa Dulsky Watkins

    Applications are now open to primary care practices and payers that want to participate in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s latest and most ambitious multipayer primary care transformation initiative, Primary Care First (PCF). Milbank Memorial Fund Program Officer Lisa Dulsky Watkins outlines the risks, responsibilities, and rewards for practices and payers, including Medicaid, that choose to participate in the five-year program. More

  • The Path to Multipayer Primary Care Transformation: How Far Have We Come?

    Blog Post

    The Path to Multipayer Primary Care Transformation: How Far Have We Come?

    October 2019 Evan Saulino

    Evan Saulino, MD, has implemented quality improvement efforts on the frontline and contributed to policy development at the state and national level. In a new Milbank blog post, Saulino assesses the progress made over the last 20 years, and some of the communication and other gaps that continue to exist between health care payers and providers. More