No primary care—> no health

This idea deserves unified support of clinicians consumers and employers AAFP ACP American Academy of Pediatrics Community Catalyst Families USA PBGH AMA Primary Care Collaborative (PCC)

Make primary care foundational: a compelling plan.

Using The Medicare Shared Savings Program To Innovate Primary Care Payment | Health Affairs Forefront healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/for… Asaf Bitton Bob Phillips Reed Abelson Joanne Kenen

At a youth prevention summit where middle schoolers are teaching other prevention teams about evidence based activities! #Springyouthforum2019 . ⁦Christopher Koller⁩

1/When Director of Public Health of great city of Cleveland Dave Margolius asks for more tweets about #primarycare , I must oblige. But with bit of satire to close out #NationalPrimaryCareWeek .

Here's a superlative for today: this research is my Super Bowl. A little background: before becoming the CEO Civitas Networks for Health, with members who are regional health improvement collaboratives and regional and statewide HIEs, I worked CMS Innovation Ctr on primary care payment models.

This thread from Kevin Grumbach is worth reading — the health of Americans doesn’t get demonstrably better unless #primarycare comes together & activates for change.

More evidence for systemic approaches to pri care xformation:Multipayer alignment+Health Info Xchange. @pcpcc AAFP Advocacy Asaf Bitton The Larry A. Green Center
The Impact of Popln Health Analytics on Health Care Quality and Efficacy Among CPC+ Participants | milbank.org/publications/t…

A few quick take aways: 1. ffs is ill suited for virtual care 2. We need to worry about interactions between virtual only and brick & mortar providers 3. Mitchell is terrific.

.Mitchell Tang Michael Chernew & Ateev Mehrotra find that current #telehealth payment and regulatory policies are not keeping pace with telehealth services. buff.ly/3UTRpiY

Hospital-at-Home care may mean lower costs, better outcomes, and enhanced quality of care for acutely ill patients, but will require new policy prescriptions for quality and safety. buff.ly/3LV82a0 medicallyhome Anaeze Offodile II

Perhaps the best visual answer to “why is American healthcare so expensive?”

Market power & agency probs are rampant, but cannot be solved via antitrust. So, at the end of the day, we either regulate prices or prices will be high (and rising).

From U.S. CBO; h/t David Auerbach

Maintaining good mental health is an important part of overall health and wellness, but gaps in care leave vulnerable groups at risk. I discuss more with Dan LeDuc on the latest episode of the “After the Fact' podcast from @PewTrusts. pew.org/3Su66HZ

#BUILDINGTRUST CONVERSATION SERIES: Hear from Christopher Koller (@MilbankFund) & Lillie Tyson Head about the importance of acknowledging past harms and what they hope other organizations can learn from their partnership. Watch the full conversation: buildingtrust.org/2022/06/buildi…

Wow, check out MA's new Medicaid 1115 waiver. Lots of great stuff hidden in there.

1. The headline -- significant coverage of housing supports, medically tailored meals and other 'SDOH'-related stuff

BUT, also check out....

Maybe Massachusetts has relatively reasonable health care costs. And then there's South Dakota.
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Community Catalyst Altarum Peterson Center on Healthcare John Arnold Mark Miller Commonwealth Fund milbank.org/2022/09/per-ca…

Health systems balance billing Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries. Where are the regulators? Do your job and enforce.

.danielle wrote an op-ed in the The New York Times this week that argues for addressing the social, economic, and political contexts that shape mental health. See our work in Science Advances for data to back this up. h/t Christopher Koller
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Opinion: Primary care in crisis, a prescription for recovery and resilience modernhealthcare.com/opinion/primar… via Modern Healthcare Clear & compelling from The Larry A. Green Center Becca Etz. Christopher Koller Asaf Bitton Lauren S. Hughes, MD, MPH, MSc, FAAFP Frederick Isasi