The Multi-payer Advanced Primary Care Practice (MAPCP) Demonstration was announced by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in September 2009 to allow Medicare to join state Medicaid programs and private insurers in participating states to improve the delivery of primary care. CMS selected eight states to participate in this demonstration: Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, and Minnesota. CMS is conducting an evaluation of the demonstration to assess the effects of advanced primary care practice when supported by Medicare, Medicaid, and private health plans. As part of this evaluation, CMS proposes surveying 5,799 healthcare providers (e.g., medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy, nurse practitioners, and physician's assistants) who are participating in the MAPCP Demonstration and caring for patients insured through Medicaid and Medicare fee-for-service. This survey will allow evaluators to understand how participating practices' structures and functions vary, particularly with respect to their adoption of different components of the PCMH model of care.
CMS received feedback from six clinicians participating in the MAPCP Demonstration who pilot-tested our survey (a seventh clinician pilot-tested our survey but had no suggested revisions). In addition, staff from CMS and the firms it contracted with to develop this survey (RTI International and the Urban Institute) have suggested some minor refinements. As a result, minor revisions have been made throughout the survey in response to feedback from these parties. These revisions are documented in Attachment E. The estimated burden associated with completing this survey has also been increased from 15 minutes to 18 minutes, based on the length of time it took for pilot-testers to complete the survey.
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