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Can Healthcare Confront Primary Care Access Shortages With NPs?

May 15, 2023 - Healthcare is on the precipice of having 100 million people lack access to primary care, a problem that could have catastrophic downstream impacts. But according to April Kapu, the president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), there’s some hope to fill in those workforce gaps. Listen to the full podcast to...

Introducing Gender-Affirming Care to Primary Care Settings, Telehealth Services

December 19, 2022 by Alivia Kaylor

Although primary care clinics offer numerous beneficial healthcare services to patients, they often fall short of delivering effective gender-affirming care (GAC), which requires empathy, trust, and...

How One Primary Care Organization is Boosting Value-Based Care for Seniors

October 24, 2022 by Anuja Vaidya

Delivering high-quality, value-based care is a strategic goal for most US healthcare organizations, though the means to the end varies. For one senior-focused primary care provider, in-home care...

Key Lessons on Value-Based Care Collaboration in Advanced Primary Care Efforts

October 03, 2022 by Kelsey Waddill

In 2019, a group of payers, providers, and other healthcare stakeholders converged to reimagine advanced primary care in the state of California through value-based care collaboration. The California...

How to Measure, Improve Strategic Primary Care Investments

July 04, 2022 by Kelsey Waddill

Strategic primary care investments—such as investing in sustainable EHR models and moving toward value-based care—can have an impact far beyond primary care services, according to Vivek...

How In-Home Primary Care Can Lower Costs, Boost Patient Satisfaction

June 13, 2022 by Kelsey Waddill

In-home primary care differs from traditional home healthcare and it can play a unique role in ensuring quality of care and access to care at a low cost for patients, according to Chris Dodd, MD, chief...

The Advantages, Challenges of Introducing Virtual-First Health Plans

November 15, 2021 by Kelsey Waddill

Although virtual-first health plans bring together tools that payers have been honing for years—apps, telehealth, virtual care, and more—the virtual-first model itself is still...

CMS Chooses Press Ganey for Primary Care Patient Surveys; Sentara, Cone End Merger Plans

June 04, 2021 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

Happy Friday after a long short week of work. Many of us in the Northeast will be scrambling to the coast to get some sun following a bleak and dreary Memorial Day Weekend. Press Ganey Gets OK from...

How Payers Can Enable Behavioral, Physical Care Integration

May 10, 2021 by Kelsey Waddill

Brett Hart, chief behavioral health officer at Centene, and Indira Paharia, chief operating officer for behavioral health at Centene, are very familiar with the need for behavioral and physical...

How Population Health Data Drives Primary Care Cost Savings

April 05, 2021 by Emily Sokol, MPH

Primary care lies at the center of care delivery. For Proactive MD, the advanced primary care model extends beyond traditional primary care, leveraging population health data analytics to drive cost...

Senate Confirms HHS Leaders, Surgeon General; Special Enrollment Period Extended on ACA’s Anniversary

March 24, 2021 by Emily Sokol, MPH

Rounding out HHS appointees, the Senate confirms Secretary Xavier Becerra to lead the department. And CMS marks the 11th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act by extending the special enrollment...

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