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March 16, 2021 | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
On March 16, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Request for Applications (RFA) for Cohort 2 of the Primary Care First (PCF) Model. Primary care practices in eligible regions are encouraged to apply. Practices...
March 15, 2021 | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is increasing the Medicare payment amount for administering the COVID-19 vaccine. This new and higher payment rate will support important actions taken by providers that are designed...
March 15, 2021
Amazon's app-based healthcare service for employees, Amazon Care, will soon launch throughout the country, Insider reported this past Friday.
Although it is currently only available to the tech giant's Washington-based employees, sources...
March 11, 2021 | American Psychological Association
In our October 2020 report, Stress in AmericaTM 2020: A National Mental Health Crisis, the American Psychological Association issued a warning about the impact of the stressful events of the COVID-19 pandemic on long-term physical and...
March 10, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
Advocates across the country look to inspire their own communities to get vaccinated
SACRAMENTO, CA--Tens of thousands of healthcare clinicians have united with other front-line workers and more than two dozen state and national...
March 9, 2021 | Milbank Memorial Fund
The Milbank Memorial Fund announced March 9, 2021, that Connecticut, Oregon, Nevada, New Jersey, and Washington have been selected to participate in the Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs. With Peterson Center on...
March 8, 2021
WASHINGTON, March 8, 2021—The Primary Collaborative (PCC), along with a number of its members and members of the Bridging the Chasm Collaborative, is releasing a women-first agenda today, International Women’s Day. This agenda closes the...
March 8, 2021
On March 5, PCC sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in support of Dr. Vivek Murthy, who has been nominated by President Joe Biden to be U.S. Surgeon General.
The letter said PCC "...
March 5, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
This is an article being republished here from the February issue of the PCC's Executive Member newsletter. Each month in the newsletter, the PCC provides a short profile of an individual who works in primary care. It is a way of...
March 5, 2021 | Purchaser Business Group on Health
In testimony to the House Committee on Energy & Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, titled The Future of Telehealth: How COVID-19 is Changing the Delivery of Virtual Care, Elizabeth Mitchell, the president and CEO of the Purchaser...
March 4, 2021
Care Medical, which provides medical services for the app-based Amazon Care, appears to be preparing to expand throughout the country, raising questions about the tech behemoth's future in the healthcare space.
March 3, 2021
President Biden said on Tuesday that a key milestone in the fight against COVID-19 could be reached two months faster than earlier projected. By the end of May, there should be enough vaccine doses for every adult in America, he said — a...
March 3, 2021 | Moving Health Home
WASHINGTON, March 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, a coalition of innovative health care companies launched a group called Moving Health Home to fundamentally change the way policymakers think about the home as a site of clinical service....
February 24, 2021 | PCPCC Press Release
WASHINGTON, February 24, 2021—The Larry A. Green Center, in collaboration with the Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) and 3rd Conversation, today released new data showing that primary care is willing to help meet the nation’s COVID-19...
February 23, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
Check back regularly for the latest survey results and updates.
For data from the previous survey, see Round 25 Results.
The Primary Care Collaborative is partnering with the Larry A. Green Center to regularly survey primary care...
February 22, 2021 | The Guardian
For Black Americans, Covid-19 is another brutal reminder of the racist legacy of the American healthcare system. A disproportionate number of the 500,000 Americans who have died of coronavirus are Black. Yet African Americans and other...
February 10, 2021
About half of American adults said they or members of their households delayed medical care because of the pandemic in its early days. Radiologists and other physicians saw preventive screenings for breast and cervical cancer drop by 94...
February 10, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
Check back regularly for the latest survey results and updates.
For data from the previous survey, see Round 24 Results.
The Primary Care Collaborative is partnering with the Larry A. Green Center to regularly survey primary care...
February 10, 2021 | PCPCC Press Release
WASHINGTON, February 10, 2021—The Larry A. Green Center, in collaboration with the Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) and 3rd Conversation, today released new data showing that 8 in 10 primary care practices are ready and willing to assist...
