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November 8, 2017 | Kansas City Business Journal
A doctor's appointment with no paperwork or co-pays might sound like a dream, but Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is working on creating just that. The Kansas City insurer teamed up with Shawnee Mission Health to launch a new...
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November 4, 2017
If you get health insurance from your employer, you have to make decision every year about which coverage to choose. So here is a warning: If you are simply sticking with an old plan with a low deductible, that may well be a wrong and...
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October 26, 2017 | AJMC
While Congress has spent much of the year debating the fate of “Obamacare,” healthcare transformation continues among payers and in practices. The quest for “patient-centered” care—which focuses on prevention, involves patients in...
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October 24, 2017 | PCPCC Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC –  Today, at the Health Affairs Briefing - “Choosing Wisely: Opportunity and Challenges in Curbing Medical Overuse” - the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) announced its partnership with the American Board...
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October 24, 2017 | AAFP News
October 23, 2017 11:31 am Michael Laff Washington, D.C. – By identifying specific public health problems and offering care to people the moment they need it, population health initiatives can work with primary care to improve health...
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October 17, 2017 | AAFP News
Washington, D.C. – As federal lawmakers consider the best way to extend health care to the uninsured, they might find lessons in states that make primary care the foundation for increasing access to care.   Experts discussed the...
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October 13, 2017 | HealthIT Analytics
October 13, 2017 - More than 200 healthcare organizations have signed on to a joint vision for primary care transformation that prioritizes coordinated, data-driven, and team-based services, says the Patient Centered Primary Care...
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October 12, 2017 | Modern Healthcare
Physicians hoping to succeed under new alternative payment models face a significant hurdle, and one that's out of their control: vendor readiness. Electronic health record vendors' lack of preparedness to help physician practices make...
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October 11, 2017 | PCPCC Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, at its Annual Fall Conference, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) released a comprehensive set of Shared Principles of Primary Care that is supported by 233 organizations representing diverse...
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October 11, 2017 | GoLocalProv
Rhode Island’s Michael Fine, M.D. has been awarded the Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award from the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) as part of their 2017 advanced primary care leadership awards.  “There is...
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October 9, 2017 | The Hill
Former NBA star Michael Jordan is donating $7 million to establish two medical clinics in Charlotte, N.C., to help at-risk or underserved communities. The donation will fund two Novant Health Michael Jordan Family Clinics in...
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October 4, 2017 | FierceHealthcare
Here’s some great news for doctors: A new survey finds 95% of patients are satisfied with their primary care physicians. However, both patients and doctors agree that they don’t have all the time they need together, according to a...
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October 3, 2017
JARRELL, Texas — Darrell Kenyon had been punting for years on various medical issues — fatigue, headaches, mood swings. The 43-year-old uninsured carpenter was particularly worried about his blood pressure, which ran high when he checked...
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September 29, 2017 | Politico
Dr. George Taler still makes house calls, driving his scuffed green Toyota sedan from one apartment to another, carrying a blue satchel with a laptop, hand sanitizer and a few medical tools. Inside each apartment, he practices medicine...
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September 22, 2017 | PCPCC Press Release
WASHINGTON — The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) advocates for high quality, affordable, and patient-centered primary care for all. We have evaluated the proposed changes to the health care legislation against these...
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September 21, 2017 | Axios
A new estimate obtained by Axios from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) projects that Alaska, home to key swing vote Sen. Lisa Murkowski, would lose 38% of federal funding for premium subsidies and Medicaid by 2026...
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September 13, 2017 | Kaiser Health News
Three years after the Affordable Care Act’s coverage expansion took effect, the number of Americans without health insurance fell to 28.1 million in 2016, down from 29 million in 2015, according to a federal report released Tuesday.
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September 12, 2017 | New York Times
WISE, Va. — They arrived at a fairground in a deep corner of Appalachia before daybreak, hundreds of people with throbbing teeth, failing eyes, wheezing lungs. They took a number, sat in the bleachers and waited in the summer heat for...
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August 25, 2017
Ohio's Department of Insurance said on Thursday that non-profit managed care company CareSource will sell health plans in Paulding County next year - the last county in the United States that would have been without Obamacare individual...
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August 25, 2017 | PCPCC Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC – Today the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) announced the recipients of its 2017 advanced primary care leadership awards, which honor diverse members of the clinical team involved in providing high value...
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