Researchers from the University of Michigan studied data from two large private insurers in Michigan from 2013 to 2020 to determine the impact of the CPC+ program. The analysis found the program did not improve spending or quality for private care patients in Michigan.
CPC+ was a public-private partnership that gave primary care providers incentives for improving patient quality measures and added care management fees designed for providers to add non-face-to-face visit services, like electronic messaging. The program ran from 2017 to 2021.
The authors compared their findings to previous studies on the program’s success in Medicare , and found CPC+ had little effect on cost or quality in those studies as well. Their study, the authors said, indicates the program has not been effective for either private insurers and public plans that participated in the program.
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