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This report offers community health centers, their partners, policymakers, and others a place to start in addressing challenges to implementing value-based payment models, particularly as the safety net faces potential cuts in federal funding for Medicaid. More

This report provides state leaders with a range of policy options states can use to strengthen primary care across geopolitically diverse contexts. More

Copublished with the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy Abstract  Recent federal policy reforms and funding reductions pose… More

This year’s Scorecard report assesses the health of primary care at the federal level using measures of access, financing, workforce/training, and research More

This brief finds that 62 Oregon primary care practices that participated in Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative (CPC Classic) and continued with the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) showed positive trends on most quality measures, as well as emergency department utilization and avoidable emergency department utilization across all payer types. More

Much research on behavioral health integration (BHI) has focused on adults. But children are affected by mental disorders too. BHI can also help children. This report is intended for anyone interested in improving the welfare of children in the health care system. More

This 2025 Primary Care Scorecard spotlights the downward cycle of financing for primary care, describing how persistent challenges in primary care arise from insufficient investment (or in the case of training, misplaced investment) and a fee-for-service (FFS) payment model that rewards volume rather than continuous, whole-person care. This report highlights how these systemic financial issues not only undermine the effectiveness of primary care delivery but, more importantly, jeopardize the overall health of our communities in the following ways. More