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Primary care innovators receive awards totaling $2.6 million from Arkansas Blue Cross
More than 100 primary care clinics throughout Arkansas participating in two value-based programs that encourage innovation in patient care have earned annual financial awards from Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
The three programs are:
- Primary Care First (PCF) – an initiative of the federal Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation and the latest iteration of the agency’s Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) program
- Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) – a team-based healthcare delivery model that seeks to provide comprehensive and continuous medical care to patients with a goal to obtain optimal health outcomes
The PCF and PCMH programs provide financial resources to encourage primary care clinics to test ideas that advance patient care, improve outcomes and reduce low-value care.
For meeting performance goals, 101 participating PCMH and PCF clinics, representing 580 healthcare providers (caring for 88,131 attributed Arkansas Blue Cross members) will share in more than $2.6 million being awarded by Arkansas Blue Cross. Each clinic met or exceeded its 2022 PCMH and PCF clinical quality and utilization measure targets by focusing on:
- Reducing avoidable hospital admissions and nonemergent emergency department visits
- Quality of care
“Primary care is vital,” said Alicia Berkemeyer, executive vice president and chief health management officer for Arkansas Blue Cross. “Innovation is a crucial element of promoting good health and preventing or limiting the impact of disease. These providers have employed creative tactics that produced impressive results.”
Launched in 2017, CPC+ was a national advanced primary care medical home model that aimed to strengthen primary care through regionally based multi-payer payment reform. The CPC+ program ended on December 31, 2021.
Primary Care First started in 2021 with a small number of clinics. Many CPC+ practices joined the program in 2022, once they completed the CPC+ program. PCF continues to strengthen primary care services and introduces risk and capitation to the payment model.
The Patient-Centered Medical Home program is a model to deliver and organize healthcare that helps to improve the patient’s experience of care, improve the health of populations and reduce or control the costs of healthcare.
Both the CMH and PCF models put the primary care provider and patient at the center of the healthcare system and allows patients to be informed about their care and be more in control of their health.
In the midst of the pandemic in 2021, members served by providers in these programs had lower rates for emergency department visits and inpatient admissions and received more preventive care than people not served by participating providers.
PCF and PCMH emphasize the following comprehensive primary care areas of focus:
- Access and continuity
- Care management
- Comprehensiveness and coordination
- Patient and caregiver engagement
- Planned care and population health
PCF and PCMH provide practices with a robust learning system, as well as actionable data feedback to guide their decision-making. The care delivery redesign seeks to deliver better care and produce a healthier patient population.
Arkansas PCMH clinics receiving 2022 awards
Clinic name | City |
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Baptist Health Arkadelphia | Arkadelphia |
King Medical Clinic | Ashdown |
The Children's Clinic | Batesville |
Saline Med-Peds Group, Inc. | Benton |
Living Tree Pediatrics, PLLC | Bentonville |
Cabot Medical Care | Cabot |
Clarksville Family Medical Center | Clarksville |
Ozark Medical & Pediatric Clinic | Clinton |
Arkansas Pediatrics of Conway | Conway |
B. Brooks Lawrence, M.D., PA | Conway |
Banister Lieblong Clinic | Conway |
Conway Children's Clinic | Conway |
Conway Regional Medical Clinic - Prince Street | Conway |
Freeman Family Clinic | Conway |
Hilman Family Clinic, PA | Conway |
TLC Pediatrics, PLLC | Conway |
Barry V. Thompson, M.D., PA | Crossett |
The Kirkland Family Medical Center, PA | Dardanelle |
SAMA Healthcare Services, PA | El Dorado |
Keystone Family Clinic | Fort Smith |
Mercy Clinic Fort Smith Communities | Fort Smith |
Cornerstone Medical Clinic | Harrison |
Hometown Doc, PA | Harrison |
Baptist Health - Heber Springs Campus Clinic | Heber Springs |
Baptist Health Family Clinic - Heber Springs | Heber Springs |
Family Medicine Clinic, PA | Hot Springs |
Harmony Park Family Medical, PLLC | Hot Springs |
Jacksonville Medical Care | Jacksonville |
Family Physicians of Jonesboro, PLLC | Jonesboro |
St. Bernards First Care - Matthews | Jonesboro |
St. Bernards First Care - Parker Road | Jonesboro |
Arkansas Pediatric Clinic, PLLC | Little Rock |
Autumn Road Family Practice, PA | Little Rock |
Benny J. Green, M.D., PA | Little Rock |
CHI St. Vincent Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic | Little Rock |
Little Rock Children's Clinic | Little Rock |
St. Vincent Physicians Clinic, LLC | Little Rock |
Magnolia Pediatrics Clinic, Inc. | Magnolia |
Healthy Connections Malvern | Malvern |
Boston Rural Mountain Health Center | Marshall |
Melbourne Medical Clinic | Melbourne |
Jefferson Regional Monticello Medical Clinic | Monticello |
Woodside Medical | Monticello |
CHI St. Vincent Morrilton | Morrilton |
Morrilton Medical Clinic | Morrilton |
Lincoln Paden Medical Clinic | Mountain Home |
Regional Family Medicine | Mountain Home |
James E. Zini, D.O., PA | Mountain View |
Child & Adolescent Medical Clinic | Paragould |
Paragould Pediatrics | Paragould |
Baptist Health Family Clinic - Prescott | Prescott |
Mercy Health Northwest Communities | Rogers |
Ozark Pediatrics | Rogers |
Rogers Family & Occupational Medicine Clinic | Rogers |
Conway Regional Medical Clinic - Russelville | Russelville |
Monfee Medical Clinic, PA | Russelville |
1st Choice Healthcare - Salem | Salem |
Family Practice Associates | Searcy |
Searcy Medical Center | Searcy |
Unity Health - Westside Family Medical Clinic | Searcy |
The Pediatric Clinic | Sherwood |
Community Physicians Group | Siloam Springs |
Baptist Health Family Clinic - Sparkman | Sparkman |
Olsen Clinic | Springdale |
St. Bernards First Care - Trumann | Trumann |
Hamby & Hamby Family Wellness Clinic, PLLC | Van Buren |
Pointer Trail Family Clinic | Van Buren |
East Arkansas Family Health Center | West Memphis |
Family Health Associates of Southwest Arkansas | White Hall |
St. Bernards First Care - Trumann | Trumann |
Arkansas PCF clinics receiving 2022 awards
Clinic name | City |
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Baptist Health Family Clinic - Cabot | Cabot |
Internal Medicine Diagnostics | Cherokee Village |
Baptist Health Pediatric Clinic - Conway | Conway |
Robin P. Ray, M.D. | El Dorado |
Family Clinic Farmington - Washington Regional | Farmington |
Family Clinic Fayetteville - Washington Regional | Fayetteville |
Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas | Fayetteville |
Pediatric Partners, PA | Fort Smith |
Glenwood Family Medicine | Glenwood |
Harrison Family Practice Clinic - Washington Regional | Harrison |
Unity Health - Medical Clinic Heber Springs | Heber Springs |
Fountain Lake Family Medicine | Hot Springs |
Hamilton West Family Medicine | Hot Springs |
Lake Hamilton Family Medicine | Hot Springs |
Lakeside Family Medicine | Hot Springs |
NEA Baptist Clinic | Jonesboro |
All for Kids Pediatric Clinic, PA | Little Rock |
Baptist Health Family Clinic - Hilcrest | Little Rock |
Baptist Health Family Clinic - West | Little Rock |
Mitchell Family Medicine, LLC | Marion |
North Central Arkansas Medical Associates, PA | Mountain Home |
Baptist Health Family Clinic - Lakewood | North Little Rock |
Baptist Health Family Medicine Residency Clinic | North Little Rock |
Baptist Health Internal Medicine Clinic | North Little Rock |
North Hills Family Medical Center | North Little Rock |
Pocahontas Medical Clinic, PA | Pocahontas |
St. Mary's Physician Services, LLC | Russelville |
Sherwood Family Medical Center | Sherwood |
Collom & Carney Clinic | Texarkana |
Sophia Meyer Family Medicine | Van Buren |
White Hall Family Medicine Associates - Mark A. Ramiro, M.D. | White Hall |