NCT01827189

Staffing Patterns of Comprehensive Primary Care Practices

Evaluation of the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 15,000 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Examines staff size and composition of the 496 advanced primary care practices participating in CMS's comprehensive primary care initiative, in 7 regions (states or local areas) that were selected for the demonstration.

Detailed description

Participating practices all have electronic health records, submitted applications to participate in this demonstration program designed to improve primary care practices, and were selected as the most advanced of the applicants in terms of use of health information technology and certification as a medical home or possessing features similar to those of a medical home. Participating practices will receive monthly payments from Centers for Medicare \& Medicaid (CMS) for Medicare patients attributed to the practice, and from other payers in the market taht are participating in the initiative. The demonstration began in October 2012 and will continue for 4 years. This early paper focuses on describing these practices at the outset of the demonstration.

Conditions

• Medicare Expenditures and Hospital Use, All Conditions

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Comprehensive primary care	Practices participating in the comprehensive primary care initiative receive a monthly amount from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for each attributed Medicare patient, plus technical support of a learning collaborative, and can share in any net savings generated.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-10-01
• Primary completion: 2016-10-01
• Completion: 2018-05-01
• First posted: 2013-04-09
• Last updated: 2018-08-16