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Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

Led by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, the Comprehensive Primary Care initiative (CPC initiative) offers a blended payment model from public and private purchasers to primary care practices that provide "comprehensive primary care." As an incentive, the cost savings from this reform will be shared with participating physicians.
The areas selected to participate in the four-year demonstration project include statewide markets and partial state markets (by county).

Statewide markets include:

View an archived version of the CPC initiative webinar.

CPC Initiative Selected Markets: Preparing your Practice for Participation
Originally aired: May 10, 2012
Speaker: Bruce Bagley, MD
  • Arkansas
  • Colorado
  • New Jersey
  • Oregon
Partial state markets by county include:
The AAFP and TransforMED are ready to assist family medicine practices in the selected markets that are interested in this initiative.

Is Your Practice Eligible for the CPC Initiative?

CMS has launched a tool to help practices determine whether they are eligible for the CPC initiative.

More Information on the CPC Initiative

Understand CMS' plan to implement the CPC initiative by reading the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative Timeline (2-page Word file; About Downloading).

Read more about the CPC initiative in Family Practice Management: The Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative: What You Need to Know.

Learn more about comprehensive care with the AAFP’s patient-centered medical home resources.

Additionally, further information on the CPC initiative is made available on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation's web page.
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