Medicare ACCESS: A visual presentation of key details for primary care physicians

Medicare’s new ACCESS payment model, which will combine primary care and specialty care with technology to manage patient chronic conditions, is a month out from its official start on July 5.

ACCESS is short for Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions. It is a 10-year voluntary model to help patients manage high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic musculoskeletal pain, and depression. Those conditions affect more than two-thirds of Medicare beneficiaries.

This slideshow compiles key slides from the online webinar that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation hosted June 4. The slides illustrated information explained by Puja Nair, ACCESS Model co-lead; Anna Rabil, ACCESS Model Quality Lead; and Colman Adams, ACCESS Model payment lead.

For more information, CMS published this dedicated ACCESS website for primary care, this billing guide and the CMS ACCESS Model API website.

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