Forbes

Advanced Primary Care: Upgrading Employee Benefits

In an era of marketing a new generation of primary care services, employers and benefits teams are inundated with pitches around “advanced” primary care. For some in employee benefits, the lingo may ...
Fierce Healthcare

CVS is expanding its MinuteClinics into primary care. Here's why

In a bid to ease access challenges, CVS Health will offer in-network primary care to Aetna members in certain markets through its MinuteClinics. The services are available to certain individual plan ...
Health Affairs

Leveraging Primary Care Population-Based Payments In Medicaid To Advance Health Equity

High-quality primary care is a critical tool to advance health equity within Medicaid, which includes many enrollees who identify as people of color. This population experiences long-standing health ...
Healthcare Dive

New CVS primary care locations to include physicians for first time

CVS Health plans to ramp up its acquisitions of physician practices and clinics as it continues to pursue its primary care strategy and races with other retail pharmacies to build out medical networks ...
Forbes

Primary Care: Why It’s Important And How To Increase Access To It

Primary care is crucial for improving health outcomes and lowering overall healthcare costs. According to a 2021 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “People in ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Impact of More Primary Care Visits on Commercial Health Care Costs

More frequent routine primary care visits for certain higher-risk commercially insured adults are associated with lower net population-level health care costs. Objective: To evaluate the relationship ...
The Conversation

Access to care: 5 principles for action on primary health‑care teams

Catherine Donnelly receives funding from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Federal Government, Ontario Ministry of Health, Ontario Health, Walton ...
The Commonwealth Fund

Medicare Alternative Payment Models That Support Improved Primary Care

Models that provide hybrid payments to primary care practices without adding financial risk are effective at supporting the ...
The Heritage Foundation

Direct Primary Care: Update and Road Map for Patient-Centered Reforms

American health care is too often overpriced, impersonal, and dysfunctional. Too many middlemen and regulations in the health care system are driving up costs, increasing complexity, burning out our ...
Health Affairs

Adult Primary Care Physician Visits Increasingly Address Mental Health Concerns

Lisa S. Rotenstein ([email protected]), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Samuel T. Edwards, Oregon Health & Science University and Veterans Affairs Portland Health Care System, ...
Healio

Integrating oral health into primary care is 'critical,' but 'there is a long way to go'

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Integrating oral health into primary care is important for overall well-being but difficult to implement.
The American Journal of Managed Care

Primary Care Practice Structural Capabilities in Health Professional Shortage Areas

Nurse practitioners are increasingly meeting primary care demands in underserved areas and are more likely to deliver structural capabilities related to chronic disease management. Objectives: To ...