CMS Reports Mixed Results For First Year Of Primary Care Initiatives

CMS paid $20 per beneficiary to save $14 per beneficiary in the first year of the Comprehensive Primary Care initiative, according to agency reports released Friday (Jan. 23), and the Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Practice Demonstration reduced Medicare expenditures by $4.2 million in the first year but only reduced expenditures in two states out of seven states in which it is running. The two reports are the first results of CMS' major tests of advanced primary care. The Affordable Care...