Seven markets chosen for CMS Comprehensive Primary Care initiative

Today the CMS Innovation Center announced it has tentatively selected for implementation of the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative seven markets from a pool of applicants. These markets are multi-payer and may include private health plans, state Medicaid agencies, and employers:

• Arkansas: Statewide
• Colorado: Statewide
• New Jersey: Statewide
• New York: Capital District-Hudson Valley Region
• Ohio: Cincinnati-Dayton Region
• Oklahoma: Greater Tulsa Region
• Oregon: Statewide

The participating payers in each market will be entering into a Memorandum of Understanding with CMS. Once the participating payers in each market have agreed to the terms and conditions of this MOU, the Innovation Center will then release a solicitation to primary care practices in these geographic areas wishing to participate in providing comprehensive primary care as part of this initiative. Approximately 75 primary care practices in each designated market will be selected to participate.

CPC is a multi-payer initiative fostering collaboration between public and private health care payers to strengthen primary care. Medicare will work with commercial and State health insurance plans and offer bonus payments to primary care doctors who better coordinate care for their patients. Primary care practices that choose to participate in this initiative will be given resources to better coordinate primary care for their Medicare patients.