ChenMed is a privately held, independent primary care group that is growing rapidly and wildly successful. There are already ChenMed clinics in ten states, and they focus on older, disadvantaged individuals with multiple chronic illnesses. Their operations are in the same neighborhoods as federally qualified health centers. (FQHCs) and they knock it out of the park. The secret sauce is value-based payment that supports primary care in providing the attention that these high-risk, high-cost patients need. They operate entirely in a capitated payment model with Medicare Advantage plans. They describe this new payment model much better than I can. If you care about better health at lower cost, this link is worth your time. If you care about your own health, medical costs, disadvantaged patients, and social barriers to good care, these two links are for you. We will never have a better health system under the current fee for service payment model.
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