PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Richard J. Baron
TI  - New Pathways for Primary Care: An Update on Primary Care Programs From the Innovation Center at CMS
AID  - 10.1370/afm.1366
DP  - 2012 Mar 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 152--155
VI  - 10
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/10/2/152.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/10/2/152.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2012 Mar 01; 10
AB  - Those in practice find that the fee-for-service system does not adequately value the contributions made by primary care. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) was created by the Affordable Care Act to test new models of health care delivery to improve the quality of care while lowering costs. All programs coming out of the Innovation Center are tests of new payment and service delivery models. By changing both payment and delivery models and moving to a payment model that rewards physicians for quality of care instead of volume of care, we may be able to achieve the kind of health care patients want to receive and primary care physicians want to provide.