CMMI Strategy Officer: Private Sector Will Emulate Primary Care First

A key goal of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) Primary Care First payment models is to create a “spectrum of models” to support patients suffering from serious illness from diagnosis through end of life. In addition to these government programs, the agency foresees that health care providers — including hospice and palliative care organizations — will work with payers to develop similar programs in the private sector, CMMI’s Chief Strategy Officer Gary Bacher told the attendees of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) National Summit on Advanced Illness Care in Minneapolis.