45 Payers Join CMS Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

On June 7, 2012, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that 45 payers have joined its seven-market Comprehensive Primary Care initiative. The initiative aims to foster collaboration between public and private health care payers. The initiative also aims to help physicians and health care professionals work with patients to improve primary care. This initiative will test a service delivery model and a payment model simultaneously. In every market, there is Medicaid participation, either directly through the state fee-for-service program or through the participation of Medicaid managed care plans. Approximately 75 primary care practices . . .