CMS Moves Forward With Initiative To Coordinate Medicare Primary Care

From Kaiser Health News: (click for full article)

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Innovation Center will administer the program, which was created by the 2010 health law. Five hundred medical practices have been selected to participate.

The Hill: Medicare Improved Project Linked To Health Law Takes Next Step Federal health officials are moving forward with a plan to reward health care providers that improve services for Medicare patients. The four-year project will be administered by the Medicare agency's Innovation Center, a creation of the 2010 health care law that seeks to reduce costs and improve health care delivery. The center's latest effort aims to foster well coordinated primary care within Medicare. The Medicare agency announced that it has selected the 500 medical practices that will participate. They will receive about $20 per beneficiary per month in exchange for providing new services (Viebeck, 8/22).