Healthcare Innovation May 18, 2023
By David Raths

“We can’t work on things like specialty integration, coordination, behavioral health — the other big challenges facing us — without us really strengthening primary care as our foundation,” says chief strategy officer of CMMI

Speaking to a May 18 meeting put on by the advocacy group Primary Care for America, Purva Rawal, Ph.D., chief strategy officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, described why primary care is so central to the overall transformation of healthcare.

Rawal said CMS’ first key objective is to drive accountable care. Its goal is to have 100 percent of its Medicare fee for service beneficiaries in accountable care relationships, the foundation of which is an advanced primary care relationship, whether that’s in an...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Medicare, Payment Models, Primary care, Provider, Value Based
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