Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Model: Evaluation of the Fourth Year (2020) Findings at a Glance

Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Model: Evaluation of the Fourth Year (2020) Findings at a Glance

Published: May 17, 2022
Publisher: Mathematica

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Authors

Kaylyn Swankoski

Ha Tu

Pragya Singh

Kristin Geonnotti

Rosalind Keith

Nikkilyn Morrison

Deborah Peikes

Nancy McCall

Nancy Duda

Amanda Markovitz

Shannon Heitkamp

Katie Lee-Morrison

Victoria Peebles

Eunhae Shin

Ning Fu

Arkadipta Ghosh

Jasmine S. Little

Katharine Bradley

Mario Gruszczynski

Tim Lake

Kristie Liao

Melanie Au

Margaret Coit

Jan Genevro

Stefanie Pietras

Laura Hanson

Laurie Felland

Sheila Hoag

Arnold Chen

Lianlian Lei

Eric Dehus

Randall Brown

Key Findings

  • Practices’ ability to work on CPC+ care delivery requirements was hindered by the COVID-19 pandemic, but a range of supports (such as care managers) and temporary changes in payment policies (such as Medicare fee-for-service payment for telehealth) helped practices continue to fund their COVID-19 work.
  • CPC+ practices cited care management fees as the most useful type of CPC+ payment support they received, used primarily to fund the salaries of care managers, behavioral health care providers, and other staff to improve care delivery.
  • The annual increase in the number of practice sites with on-site behavioral health specialists was valuable, particularly during the fourth year as the COVID-19 pandemic increased mental health care demand during a very challenging time to secure services.
  • CPC+ practices saw reductions in emergency department (ED) visits, acute hospitalizations, and acute hospitalization expenditures and improvement in some quality-of-care measures, though overall savings to Medicare were offset by increases in expenditures on other services.

The Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Model: Findings at a Glance provides a brief overview of the independent evaluation’s findings about the first four years of CPC+ for the 2,905 practices in regions that began CPC+ in 2017. A full report on the evaluation of CPC+’s four year is found in the Independent Evaluation of Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+): Fourth Annual Report, which describes (1) engagement in CPC+ by payer partners and health IT vendors and participation by practices; (2) the supports practices received; (3) how practices implemented CPC+ and changed the way they delivered health care; and (4) the impacts of CPC+ on cost, service use, limited claims-based quality-of-care outcomes, and patient experience for attributed Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.

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