Since 2009, the Milbank Memorial Fund’s Multi-State Collaborative has brought together diverse groups of professionals from public and private payer organizations, state agencies, health care providers, and non-profits representing projects across the country actively engaged in multi-payer primary care transformation. Our aim is to support these local teams of payers, project facilitators, and others as they help their local multi-payer primary care transformation tables stabilize and succeed, leading to sustainable and credible local leadership and successful project outcomes.

In 2017, the annual meeting was held on October 19 and 20 in Boston. This multi-disciplinary meeting had several specific goals:

• To allow CPC+ (and other) market conveners and payer leaders to gather in person to share information, get updates, and assess the status of their local projects as they set about local planning and implementation
• To hear about and codify important lessons from earlier iterations of multi-payer primary care transformation projects such as CPC “classic”
• To set expectations about how local multi-payer primary care transformation can be supported by the Milbank Memorial Fund’s Multi-State Collaborative in the coming year.

Here are presentations from this year’s meeting:

• Opportunities and Challenges in Overlaps of Payment Programs
  Brent Higgins and Hoangmai Pham, The Anthem Companies, Inc.
• The Impact of Primary Care Practice Transformation on Utilization, Cost and Quality
  Yalda Jabbarpour, Georgetown University School of Medicine
• CPC Classic Lessons for CPC+
  Erin Taylor, Mathematica Policy Research
• PA Regional Action Plan (Milestone 2)
  Peter P. Bachini, Aetna, National Medicare Segment and Erik D. Muther, Health Care Improvement Foundation