Should Our Practice Participate in the New CMS Primary Care First Initiative?

摘要

The recently announced CMS Primary Care First (PCF) initiative continues to build on the incremental shift of care delivery from volume to value through improving outcomes, reducing utilization and controlling costs. By incentivizing primary care practitioners through a combination of performance-based payments and a flat primary care visit fee, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expects this new alternative payment model will help reduce costs while minimizing the administrative burden associated with revenue cycle functions for practices. Practice and payer applications for PCF are slated to begin in 2019, and PCF starts in January 2020.