First, I’ll quote the statement in the AAFP’s Alternative Payment Model document that deals with care coordination: “rimary care is best positioned to coordinate care across settings and among physicians in most cases. Primary care medical homes work closely with patients’ other health care providers to coordinate and manage care transitions,...
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The AAFP’s recent statement on Advanced Primary Care calls for adopting the “five key functions of the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Initiative.” This was an experiment under Obamacare where CMS tried to create innovative primary care payment approaches, which was mostly patterned after NCQA PCMH thinking. It started in 2012. Mathematica Policy...
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