Posts tagged primary care
Hot Topic: CMS' Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Initiative
Hot Topic: CMS' Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Initiative

The CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has spent the last 6 years testing out a variety of models for value-based care and payment--the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) and other ACO models, the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Initiative, the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model, and various Medicaid and CHIP initiatives. As the Administration doubles down on its commitment to shift payments away from fee-for-service (FFS), it continues to innovate, building programs to align incentives to person-centered, comprehensive, high quality health care. In that vein, in July of this year, CMS will begin taking applications from practices for participation in a new CMMI program: the CPC+ program.

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Medical Practice, Physicians, Integrative MedicineRebecca Gwiltcomprehensive primary care, CPC+, CPC, ACO, MSSP, CMMI, Medicare, FFS, FFV, Triple Aim, fee for service, fee for value, BCPI, bundled payments, CMS, primary care, PCP
Rebecca E. Gwilt, Esq. on Part B News' "Patient Encounters"
Rebecca E. Gwilt, Esq. on Part B News' "Patient Encounters"

In the April 4, 2016 edition of Part B News, Rebecca Gwilt talks about integration of behavioral health care into acute and primary care settings.

"For individual physicians, simply instituting a process to administer basic depression screening is an easy first step,” says Gwilt. That might be the kind of depression screening attached to annual wellness visits, which may be quite simple (PBN 3/14/16). Or you can kick it up a notch with something like the PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire depression eval), the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) or the 20-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)."

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Firm NewsRebecca Gwiltbehavioral health, mental health, primary care, acute care, chronic condition, readmission
Busting Barriers to Exchange of Health Care Records
Busting Barriers to Exchange of Health Care Records

On February 5, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Sylvia Burwell, announced a proposed rule that would update privacy rules regarding substance abuse records--for the first time since 1987. This proposed rule has the potential to ease barriers to streamlined and efficient exchange of patient information across the care spectrum.

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HIPAA, Integrative MedicineRebecca GwiltACO, behavioral health, primary care, integration, integrative medicine, accountable care, subtance abuse, 42 CFR Part 2, HIPAA, privacy, mental health, drug and alcohol