Healthcare Innovation April 23, 2019
But are enough primary care groups ready to participate in models with significant risk?
On April 22, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a new set of voluntary value-based payment models for primary care physicians under the label “Primary Cares.” Clearly there are details to be worked out about benchmarking methodology and risk adjustment design. But thought leaders, provider groups and medical associations were generally enthusiastic in their initial responses.
One path of the new payment model, called Direct Contracting, allows larger, sophisticated organizations to take full accountability for their patients at a local level.
America’s Physician Groups, an association that represents more than 300 medical groups already involved in value-based contracting, called the approach a...
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