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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