Primary Care Collaborative (PCC)

Advocating for better health and wellbeing for all Americans.

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

With comments due to CMS by September 12, the Primary Care Collaborative has created a useful guide to the major issues in the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

Give it a read ⬇️
https://t.co/JyLnJnTBFz

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

The PCC’s Whole Person Primary Care Workgroup visited @CMSGov yesterday afternoon to discuss how to scale successful whole person primary care innovations across Medicare.

We’re grateful to Gita Deo and Amy Truong for welcoming the workgroup and for taking the time to engage in such an important conversation.

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

The PCC has issued a statement in response to an executive order issued on May 29, 2026 instructing the Department of Health and Human Services to make additional changes to the childhood vaccine schedule ⬇️
https://t.co/waQIl0WfeO

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

The PCC is disappointed by today’s interim final Medicaid rule, which would further imperil access to high-quality primary care.

Our full statement below.
https://t.co/Bv5UoODvF0

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

In a recent PCC webinar, surprise guest @jakequintonMD outlined @CMSgov's belief that primary care payment should go beyond just doctor’s visits, with APCM allowing for payment flexibility.

More in a discussion with him and other health leaders ⬇️
https://t.co/9czdwEtZLq

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

Join the PCC next month for a webinar exploring the impact of cost-sharing access and quality of care—and for a discussion on what policymakers can do to address these hurdles.

Register below ⬇️
https://t.co/sTcGzlfXWp

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

On May 20, the @HouseCommerce's Health Subcommitee held a hearing entitled, “Examining the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, MACRA, and Opportunities for Payment Reforms.”

Primary care took center stage at the hearing; read five major themes we caught ⬇️
https://t.co/xsx3zGWefH

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

Every other week, the PCC rounds up the latest primary care news. 📰

Today's edition covers everything from HHS's dismissal of USPSTF vice chairs to the importance of behavioral health integration in primary care ⬇️
https://t.co/JXam04tfpu

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

The U.S. continues to trail our peer nations in life expectancy, despite high health care spending.

The culprit? Underinvestment in accessible, high-quality primary care.

More in an @AJMC_Journal article ⬇️
https://t.co/Oani4eGE0W

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

Historic low trust in health care, paired with rapidly spreading misinformation, has contributed to worsening health outcomes and a deemphasis on preventative care.

Hear from @doc_kgb and other health leaders on how primary care can help rebuild trust ⬇️
https://t.co/U2RgcqYsen

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

"The tools we build should serve clinicians and patients, not complicate their lives."

After PCC’s recent report on administrative burden in value-based primary care, Sean Hogan wrote about responsible AI implementation in primary care ⬇️
https://t.co/jtNqxdatv1

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

The PCC is accepting applications for its one-year Richard Baron fellowship.

Learn more about this opportunity to obtain exposure to federal regulatory and legislative primary care policy, and to an array of senior leaders. 🔽
https://t.co/eO8YKltbkO

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

A new @CarolinaJournal opinion piece from health leaders, including @communitycarenc's Tom Wroth, outlines how mental health integration into primary care can improve outcomes and lower cost in North Carolina ⬇️
https://t.co/XfqBRe8Na9

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

APCM services help older adults partner with their primary care clinicians, particularly outside the office. However, this can only happen when given the proper infrastructure to monitor and coordinate care.

More from @AARPpolicy's Cristina Boccuti in a recent PCC webinar:
https://t.co/fSaqlQVUoW

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

"Somewhere in New Jersey tonight, a primary care doctor is sitting at her kitchen table, still in her work clothes, clicking through an electronic records system to document patient visits she never had time to finish at the office."

An @njdotcom op-ed:
https://t.co/75qCxsJrl9

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

Two days of testimony saw Wyoming residents talk to state lawmakers about maternity care deserts, behavioral health shortages, clinician shortages and accessibility struggles.

Get the rundown from @BuffBulletin:
https://t.co/UrjHxhSqsN

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

"Primary care visits with a mental health diagnosis increased from approximately 6 visits per 100 children in 2014 to nearly 10 visits per 100 children in 2023. Anxiety-related visits had the largest relative increase, rising by 300%"

From @PatCareOnline:
https://t.co/ouxGR2kLMu

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

As the United States faces a projected shortage of 90,000 primary care physicians by 2040, a new @Healthgrades article outlines some strategies to reverse this harmful trend in a new @AnnalsofIM paper.

An interesting read ⬇️
https://t.co/wgDisroEow

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

In a recent video from PCC and @ACCP, Sheri Conner and Rebecca Heath, PharmD, explore how a team-based approach to care has empowered Sheri as she provides care to her mother, who has dementia.

Give it a watch ⬇️
https://t.co/6Uu8tBp5Xr

[Families USA @FamiliesUSA]

Yesterday, we submitted a statement for the record ahead of the Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing urging lawmakers to take meaningful action on Medicare physician payment reform.

[Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) @PCPCC]

The Primary Care Collaborative is concerned by the termination of Dr. John Wong and Dr. Esa Davis from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).

“The USPSTF plays a central role in ensuring American families have access to critical preventive services that are the underpinning of primary care,” said @AnnGreiner1, President and CEO of the PCC.

Our full statement: https://t.co/RsvAQ1nWVw