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The U.S. healthcare system has a pernicious problem: As a society, we don’t understand the value of primary care. As a result, it is at risk of extinction. Instead of primary care, we’ve been conditioned to value tests and procedures, hospitals, and highly subspecialized care. The work of primary care is cognitively demanding and relational, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. Mar. 28, 2024 — Primary Care for America (PCFA) announced exclusive sponsorship of Faisel and Friends: A Primary Care Podcast. Hosted by ChenMed’s Drs. Faisel Syed and Dan McCarter, the podcast explores critical issues impacting primary care, including workforce shortages, physician payment models and clinician burnout. Listeners can download new episodes wherever they […]

Dear Speaker McCarthy, Leader Jefferies, Leader Schumer, and Leader McConnell: On behalf of Primary Care for America, we write to strongly urge Congress to support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) proposal to implement a Medicare billing code, known as G2211, in 2024 as implementation of this this add-on code will improve Medicare […]

I recently joined a group of primary care leaders to learn, network, and moderate a panel at PRIMARYCARE23, Primary Care For America’s (PCfA) annual conference. Primary care remains the key to solving America’s fractured, underperforming healthcare system. For me, this event put a spotlight on the many ways the industry is working to reinvent primary care delivery […]

Primary care is a vital part of our health care system that is necessary to improve quality of care, contain health care costs, and improve the overall patient experience. Primary health care teams include physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and others who provide important services such as preventive care, diagnosing and managing acute and chronic […]

Primary Care in America has been tested. Amid a public health emergency, primary care has innovated, evolved, and built tools for the future, but there is more to be done. Nationally recognized experts recently discussed the future of Primary Care in America at the PrimaryCare 22: See the Possibilities hybrid event. Dr. David Blumenthal and Dr. Clive […]

On May 17th and 18th, members of Primary Care for America (PCfA) participated in the Modern Healthcare Transformation Summit to ensure that important conversations around changes to the health care industry include the role that primary care plays in reducing health care costs, improving patient outcomes, and creating new growth opportunities. PCfA members joined their […]

Primary Care was a key topic of discussion at the 2022 J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference. Conference attendees, including founding members of Primary Care for America, discussed the leading role of primary care in driving towards value-based care. Click here to read more about how the broader health care and investment community is recognizing the value of primary care to our nation’s health care.

In their landmark report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine (NASEM) concluded: “Primary care is the only health care component where an increased supply is associated with better population health and more equitable outcomes. For this reason, primary care is a common good, which makes the strength and quality of the country’s primary care services a public concern.”