CTC-RI has been awarded two tremendous grants by UnitedHealthcare to help advance our comprehensive primary care efforts in Rhode Island. Thank you to UnitedHealthcare for their generous support:
The Clinical Strategy Committee provides an important multi-payer opportunity for systems of care, providers and health plans to learn from each other on ways to advance primary care in Rhode Island. Below are key topics that were discussed in September and October:
September
Rhode Island is one of 18 regions selected by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to participate in the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) innovation project. The CPC+ initiative is an advanced primary care medical home model that offers an innovative payment structure to support delivery of comprehensive primary care.
On October 24 at the Crown Plaza in Warwick, 400 primary care practice leaders, care team members, stakeholders, and vendors attended the CTC-RI 2019 Annual Conference, "Advancing Integrated Primary Care: Innovations at Work."
On September 24, Debra Hurwitz, MBA, BSN, RN and Nelly Burdette Psy.D presented “Advancing Comprehensive Primary Care: Update on Integrated Behavioral Health Program” to Brown Univ. medical students.
CTC-RI hosted its quarterly IBH Committee meeting on Behavioral Health Telemedicine with Pamela Hoffman from Lifespan presenting on its Pediatric Behavioral Health Program, CODAC and Thundermist presenting on its Telehealth Collaboration for Opioid Treatment Program.
The mission of CTC-RI is to support the continuing transformation of primary care in Rhode Island as the foundation of an ever-improving integrated, accessible, affordable, and equitable health care system. CTC-RI brings together critical stakeholders to implement, evaluate and spread effective multi-payer models to deliver, pay for and sustain high-quality, comprehensive, accountable primary care.