EDITORIALS complexity risk adjustment, Medicaid parity with Medicare payments, and multi-
payor participation in enhanced primary care payment. Implementing these …

Moving forward, the Roundtable will continue to elevate understanding about primary care
and its value, potential, and needs among policy makers and other key stakeholders, as well …

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is committed to advancing health
equity, expanding coverage, and improving health outcomes. To support this vision, the …

Part 1 of this essay argued that the root causes of primary care's problems lie in (1) the low
percent of national health expenditures dedicated to primary care and (2) overly large …

Primary care teams bridge health care to other sectors, making effective connections
between health care and health. For health care systems to improve patient and population …

This 2-part essay offers a discussion of the health of primary care in the United States. Part 1
argues that the root causes of primary care's problems are (1) the low percent of national …

Brady Bouchard BSEE MBBS CCFP Ifeel all thin,… like butter that has been scraped over
too much bread.” 1 This is an apt description for many family physicians and for the …

Despite at least two decades of rhetoric about the need to build a robust primary care
infrastructure, the US health care system continues to limp along with the smallest ratio of …

National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding allocations are out. Family Medicine has
been successful. Between 2002 and 2006, departments of family medicine received only …

401 modified FFS cannot turn into blooming oases. As the authors dryly conclude,“Achieving
goals of the PCMH will likely require more radical payment reforms to specifically target …