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May 27, 2021 | Washington Post
Montgomery County (Maryland) leaders are taking steps to add mental health to the list of valid reasons to be absent from school, saying that the move is especially important after the inordinate toll of the pandemic.
The change...
May 27, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
New CMS Administrator Confirmed
On May 25, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure was confirmed as the next Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She is the first Black woman to fill the role. Her confirmation process had...
May 27, 2021
The Maine legislature is considering “An Act Regarding Targets for Health Plan Investments in Primary Care and Behavioral Health” (LD 1196 ). It will likely be carried over to next year with a stakeholder workgroup working on details over...
May 27, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
The pandemic is having an outsized impact on Americans without health insurance. According to a report by Families USA, approximately one out of every three COVID-19 deaths nationally are linked to health insurance gaps. The federal...
May 27, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
Congress continues to weigh how telehealth should be treated after the public health emergency ends. In late April, the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee held a hearing on the path forward for telehealth. Witnesses included Sinsi...
May 27, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
In late April, PCC issued a letter to the House and Senate leadership requesting $5 million in dedicated funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Center for Primary Care Research in fiscal year 2022. The center...
May 26, 2021 | Forbes
What will it take to produce genuine reform in our system? I think of the Civil Rights movement that blossomed in America after World War II. Looking at the horrors of Jim Crow, bold leaders saw a system that was a national embarrassment...
May 24, 2021 | NPR
When cases of COVID-19 began rising in Boston last spring, Pooja Chandrashekar, then a first year student at Harvard Medical School, worried that easy-to-understand information about the pandemic might not be available in the many...
May 21, 2021 | MedPage Today
On the eve of reentry, we must sift through the rubble and start an honest conversation about health. What does it mean to be healthy? Where are our patients currently turning for help? How can we reimagine healthcare to meet both the...
May 13, 2021
News release from the Primary Care Development Corporation, a PCC Executive Member:
PCDC Supports Legislation to Strengthen Primary Care in New York
Primary care is undervalued and underfunded, despite evidence that it improves health...
May 12, 2021 | Washington Post
Much of our focus over the past year has rightly been on the widespread failures related to the pandemic. But we’ve taken for granted just how flexible the American health-care system showed it can be in a crisis. Before the coronavirus,...
May 10, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
Primary Care’s Role in COVID Vaccines
"White House, state officials scramble to get docs’ help with lagging vaccination effort" is a May 9 article in POLITICO that Ann Greiner, PCC president and CEO, was quoted in.
"To raise COVID...
May 4, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
WASHINGTON, MAY 4, 2021—As the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), the country’s premier independent, evidence-based adviser on medicine and healthcare, release a landmark new report today on primary care,...
April 29, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
The White House and CDC are looking to help states better incorporate primary care into their COVID-19 vaccination strategy. They have launched a three-pronged effort that includes:
providing states with accessible lists of enrolled...
April 29, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
Today the FCC opens a second round of funding for its COVID-19 telehealth program. The agency will distribute at least $150 million in this round, with applications closing May 6. In 2020, the CARES Act established the FCC telehealth...
April 29, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
Primary care payment models out of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation have seen a number of updates in recent weeks. Practices that joined the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) model in 2018 recently learned that their...
April 29, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
Hearings began in mid-April for Chiquita Brooks-Lasure, President Biden’s pick to head CMS, along with Andrea Palm, the administration’s nominee for the number two job at HHS. While the Senate Finance Committee’s hearing for Brooks-LaSure...
April 29, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
COVID-19 continues to take a disproportionate toll on communities of color. A recent study found that Black women are three times more likely than White men to die from COVID-19. And this month, the CDC released a pair of studies further...
April 29, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra recently renewed the country’s public health emergency that was set to expire April 21. The declaration extends the PHE another 90 days through July 21, 2021. The COVID-19-related emergency was first declared...
April 27, 2021
The PCC sent a letter to the chair and ranking member of the U.S. Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee and the chair and ranking member of the U.S. House of Representatives Labor, Health and...
