Blue, who has a Ph.D. in demography from Princeton University, is currently the project director for the evaluations of two alternative payment models from the CMS Innovation Center to improve primary care: the Primary Care First Model and the Making Care Primary Model. Blue has previously worked as the impact task lead for the Primary Care First Model and as the deputy project director for the Million Hearts Model, an initiative to reduce heart attacks and strokes. She has also worked as a task lead to test new quality measures under a contract titled Electronic Clinical Quality Measures and Development for Eligible Professionals. That work involved planning mixed-methods testing, including interviewing clinicians and patients about measurement concepts, and partnering with physician practices to obtain electronic health record data to calculate and assess the statistical properties of draft measures.
This report presents findings from Mathematica’s independent evaluation of the second year of the Primary Care First model. The model is a continuation of CMS’ efforts to enhance primary care and move primary care practitioners toward value-based payment.
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