Faced with the greatest public health threat our country has ever faced, New York-based, Primary PartnerCare ACO Independent Practice Association, Inc (Primary PartnerCare ACO) achieved an almost perfect quality score of 99.69%, the highest score of [...]
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Primary PartnerCare® Utilizes Proprietary Software to Respond to COVID-19
GREAT NECK, N.Y., May 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Primary PartnerCare quickly modified its proprietary risk algorithm to efficiently deploy clinical resources to its over 20,000 Medicare patients during COVID-19 pandemic. During its normal course of business, Primary [...]
Primary Care under Strain due to COVID-19
Nearly 8 in 10 primary care clinicians say their practice is under “severe” or “close to severe” strain because of COVID-19, with only one-third of respondents to a new poll this week reporting that they [...]
Requiring Hospitals to Notify Docs of Admissions Gets Pushback
A proposal from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requiring hospitals to inform a patient’s primary care physician when that patient is admitted to, transferred from, or discharged from the hospital has some [...]
Why Hospitals Should Fear Blue Cross Primary Care Centers
As if hospitals and health systems didn’t have enough emerging threats with big well capitalized publicly-traded insurance companies and drugstore chains developing primary care clinics and urgent care centers in their backyards. Now come the [...]