Reinventing Primary Care
Known by many names – patient-centered medical home (PCMH), practice transformation, health home, direct primary care (DPC) – Provider Practice Innovation means re-inventing primary care to serve as a foundation for population health management.
With programs like the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), the Medicare Shared Savings Program, and Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+), Medicare is championing Provider Practice Innovation. Now, commercial payers and employers are doing the same, with many looking forward to full-risk primary care payments.
Primary care providers committed to practice innovation report higher levels of professional satisfaction, released from the tyranny of the eight-minute office visit. Patients under the care of these providers report better access to care and more personalized attention, and early results show improved outcomes.[1]
Helping Providers and Payers
With experience and expertise in provider practice innovation initiatives, PYA can help providers realize these opportunities:
- Create and manage transformation transition plans
- Provide one-on-one coaching
- Deploy necessary infrastructure (staffing, technology)
- Develop marketing strategies
- Evaluate success (quality improvement, cost reduction, patient and provider satisfaction)
PYA can assist payers and employers in designing incentives for provider practice innovation, resulting in smarter spending on healthcare:
- Identify and evaluate market opportunities
- Define and design specific incentive structures (e.g., PCMH payments, DPC scope of services)
- Develop performance metrics
For more information about provider practice innovation, contact one of our executives below, (800) 270-9629.
[1] See P. Eskew and K. Klink, Direct Primary Care: Practice Distribution and Costs, Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (Nov./Dec. 2015).